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AND CONTINUING UNTIL THE DATE OF PUBLIC SALE 


A VERY NOTABLE COLLECTION 


OF 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUGS 


TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


ON WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY 
AFTERNOONS, JANUARY 6TH, 7TH, 8TH AND 9TH 


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ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE 


OF THE 
VERY NOTABLE COLLECTION 


OF 


BEAUTIFUL OLD CHINESE RUGS 


GATHERED DURING MANY YEARS BY THE WIDELY 
KNOWN CONNOISSEUR 


MR. THOMAS B. CLARKE 


TO BE SOLD AT UNRESTRICTED PUBLIC SALE 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


ON THE AFTERNOONS HEREIN STATED 


CATALOGUE WRITTEN BY MR. DANA H. CARROLL 


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THE SALE WILL BE CONDUCTED BY 
MR. THOMAS E. KIRBY 
AND HIS ASSISTANT, MR. OTTO BERNET, OF 
THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Manacrrs 


1915 


THE AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION _ 
DESIGNS ITS CATALOGUES AND DIRECT 
ALL DETAILS OF ILLUSTRATION _ 
TEXT AND TYPOGRAPHY 


A FOREWORD 


It was a few years ago only that Americans awoke to the 
beauties of the antique Chinese rug. Rugs of the nearer Orient 
had then already been acquired here with such appetite that it 
was credibly stated that there were more of them in this country 
than in any other. But even those persons who posed as accom- 
plished purveyors of the artistic productions of Cathay had 
failed to feel the potency of charm inherent in these creations of 
the Celestial looms. Mr. Clarke proved sensitive, and he has 
been busy obtaining these rugs ever since. 

(I have.sometimes thought, in conning the multiplicity of 
his artistic activities and sympathies, that in a less sophisticated 
age he would surely have come to be known as “The Prince of 
Collectors,” or by some other illuminating and affectionate ap- 
pellation. For he has been identified in the field of art, for many 
years, and collected for the sake of collecting and with an en- 
deavor to encourage others in procuring the beautiful in art 
rather than the commonplace.) 

In assembling these rugs he has brought together some most 
beautiful and unusual fabrics. In his private collection, which 
he is including in this sale with rugs of stock, are remarkable 
specimens, and even extensive collectors of Chinese rugs will 
doubtless find the unexpected. In the general collection are, natu- 
rally, rugs for a variety of tastes and uses—-here are almost if 
not quite all of the colors and sizes, and many shapes—and it, 
also, comprehends choice examples. In both categories—and 
no attempt is made in the catalogue to segregate them—are to 
be found rugs large and small such as have not been publicly 
seen in this country. 

Some of the designs will come as a surprise to those who 
have viewed the Chinese rugs heretofore exhibited. The so-called 
animal rugs, comparatively rare, are here in considerable num- 
ber—not only the strange Fu, but the famous eight horses, the 


tiger, and the animals of the Chinese zodiac also appearing. 


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There is, too, a fish rug. Several of the rugs possess the rarity 
of birds in their decoration—that is to say, not merely the fabu- 
lous feng-huang, propitious harbinger, the equally familiar crane, 
messenger of longevity, and the storks, those “couriers of the 
immortals,” but song birds winging through their element or 
loftily poised on swaying boughs (and even the domestic rooster, 
if he may be included). | 

Butterflies and dragon flies, water weeds and other aquatic 
plants—the air and the water as well as the earth contribute 
to the decoration. The foliose ornamentation is most diversified, 
symbols of art and culture abound, and there is ever found 
occasion to work in emblematic medallions of “myriad ages”— 
round Show characters— the Celestial wish for length of days 
in naive hyperbole. Of the richness, purity and softness of color, 
of its transcendental nuances, it is unnecessary to speak. 

It might be wished that man and his needs had been more 
tender to some of these fabrics, but the wish may vanish-in thanks 
that wonder-working time has been kindly in the treatment and 
the preservation of so many of them. 

A forgetful remark is sometimes heard that all objects of 
Chinese art are commonly spoken of in words generally used 
concerning Chinese porcelains, with the implication that por- 
celains having first become familiar to the Western world, the 
subsequent vocabulary was indebted to them. ‘The liberty is 
ventured, therefore, to offer the reminder here that it is ancient 
Chinese weaving which has supplied most of the decorative motives 
employed in other branches of Chinese art, and that therefore 
it is in ceramics that the recurrence, not the origin of resemblant 
terms is found. 


Dana H. Carron. 
New York, December, 1914 


CONDITIONS OF SALE 


1. Any bid which is merely a nominal or fractional advance may 
be rejected by the auctioneer, if, in his judgment, such bid would be 
likely to affect the sale injuriously. 

2. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute 
arise between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide 
the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. 

3. Payment shall be made of all or such part of the purchase 
money as may be required, and the names and addresses of the pur- 
chasers shall be given immediately on the sale of every lot, in default 
of which the lot so purchased shall be immediately put up again and 
re-sold. 

Payment of that part of the purchase money not made at the 
time of sale shall be made within ten days thereafter, in default of 
which the undersigned may either continue to hold the lots at the 
risk of the purchaser and take such action as may be necessary for 
the enforcement of the sale, or may at public or private sale, and 
without other than this notice, re-sell the lots for the benefit of such 
purchaser, and the deficiency (if any) arising from such re-sale shall 
be a charge against such purchaser. 

4, Delivery of any purchase will be made only upon payment 
of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. 

Deliveries will be made on sales days between the hours of 9 
A. M. and 1 P. M., and on other days—except holidays—between the 
hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M. 

Delivery of any purchase will be made only at the American Art 
Galleries, or other place of sale, as the case may be, and only on pre- 
senting the bill of purchase. 

Delivery may be made, at the discretion of the Association, of 
any purchase during the session of the sale at which it was sold. 

5. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in 
which the Association is in no wise engaged, and will not be performed 
by the Association for purchasers. ‘The Association will, however, 
afford to purchasers every facility for employing at current and 
reasonable rates carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any 
assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of 
the parties engaged for such service. 

6. Storage of any purchase shall be at the sole risk of the pur- 
chaser. Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s hammer, and 
thereafter, while the Association will exercise due caution in caring 


for and delivering such purchase, it will not hold itself responsible if 
such purchase be lost, stolen, damaged or destroyed. 

Storage charges will be made upon all purchases not removed 
within ten days from the date of the sale thereof. 

7. Guarantee is not made either by the owner or the Association 
of the correctness of the description, genuineness or authenticity of 
any lot, and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, 
error of cataloguing, or any imperfection not noted. Every lot is 
on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, after which 
it is sold “as is” and without recourse. 

The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot cor- 
rectly, and will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy 
expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued, and, 
in its judgment, may either sell the lot as catalogued or make mention 
of the opinion of such expert, who thereby would become responsible 
for such damage as might result were his opinion without proper 
foundation. 

| SPECIAL NOTICE. 

Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on 
orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph or telephone, will be faith- 
fully attended to without charge or commission. Any purchase so 
made will be subject to the above Conditions of Sale, which cannot 
in any manner be modified. The Association, however, in the event of 
making a purchase of a lot consisting of one or more books for a pur- 
chaser who has not, through himself or his agent, been present at 
the exhibition or sale, will permit such lot to be returned within ten 
days from the date of sale, and the purchase money will be returned, if 
the lot in any material manner differs from its catalogue description. 

Orders for execution by the Association should be written and 
given with such plainness as to leave no room for misunderstanding. 
Not only should the lot number be given, but also the title, and bids 
should be stated to be so much for the lot, and when the lot consists 
of one or more volumes of books or objects of art, the bid per volume 
or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is 
unknown to the Association, a deposit should be sent or reference sub- 
mitted. Shipping directions should also be given. 

Priced copies of the catalogue of any sale, or any session thereof, 
will be furnished by the Association at a reasonable charge. 


AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, 
American Art Galleries, 
Madison Square South, 
New York City. 


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MANAGERS 
SALE AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
THE THOMAS B. CLARKE COLLECTION 
on January 6, 7, 8 and 9, 1915 


To save time and to prevent mistakes each Purchaser 
will oblige the Managers by filling in this slip and hand- 
ing it to the Record Clerk or Sales Attendant on making 
the first purchase. 


Purchaser’s Name 


_ Address in Full 


Amount of Deposit = ss 


FIRST AFTERNOON’S SALE 
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1915 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 2.30 O’CLOCK 


Catalogue Nos. 1 to 175 inclusive 


No. 1 
ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MAT 
Breadth, 1 foot 6 inches; depth, 1 foot 3 inches. 


Dark fawn-gray ground, with a medallion in which appear the 
kilin and the pheenix, and scrolling foliations at the corners in 


dark and light blue, dull yellow and pinkish-brown. Ch’ien-lung. 


No: 2 


PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MATS 
Breadth, 1 foot 7 inches; depth, 1 foot 2 inches. 


Pinkish-brown with a narrow border in two tones of blue, the body 
ornamented in turquoise, white, pale golden-yellow and _ seal- 
brown, with four butterflies and a floral medallion. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 38 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MATS 
Breadth, 1 foot 7 inches; depth, 1 foot 5 inches. 


Yellow ground, with foliations and a medallion of floral forms, 
in two shades of blue, pale and orange brown and a dull white. . 


Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 4 


FOUR ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MATS 
Breadth, 1 foot 8 inches; depth, 1 foot, 3 inches. 
Gray and grayish-brown ground, with foliate corners and com- 


posite medallions in dark sapphire-blue, golden-yellow and orange- 
brown. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 5 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 2 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 9 inches. 
Straight sides and oval ends. Brown field within a solid blue bor- 
der, decorated with elaborate flower sprays and a foliar medallion 
in pale golden-yellow and soft-white, dark epee and tur- 
quoise. Eighteenth century. 


No. 6 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Dimensions, 2 feet by 2 feet. 
Complex medallion of pale turquoise and dark blue within a 
square field with bats at the corners; formal border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 7 : 
FOUR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 2 inches square. 


White serrate leaves are placed in regular arrangement on a bril- 
liant sapphire field enclosing a foliated medallion and having 
foliate-scroll corners. ‘“Rice-grain” border in two shades of blue 
with golden yellow. Eighteenth century. 


No. 8 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 3 inches by 1 foot 9 inches. 


Sapphire and golden-brown, the sapphire a beautifully brilliant 
blue and the golden tones pale and inclined to neutrality, resting 
in a soft-gray field; these are the colors in corner foliations, a 
folate medallion, and a floral lattice. Eighteenth century. 


No. 9 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 2 inches square. 


Variegated lattice-border with conventionalized floral patterns, 
enclosing a square of red and pink grill having scalloped corners 
and a foliated central medallion of soft olive-yellow ground, 
adorned with blossoms in rose-pink, white, garnet and blue. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 10 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet square. 
A white crane touched with pale blue is pictured on the wing in a 
floral medallion completed in sapphire, golden-yellow and white, 
within a shimmering brown square that is dotted with smaller 
conventional medallions in pale blue and old-gold. Two borders. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 11 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 
Dimensions, 2 feet 2 inches by 2 feet. 


Scrolls and foliations in deep sapphire and pale turquoise blue, 
dull white and pale gold, on a brown ground, form the decorations 
of this mat, appearing in the border and in a medallion, and in 
the corners of a square field. Eighteenth century. 


Nov 12 


FOUR CHINESE SQUARE MATS 
(Blue and white) 


Dimensions, 2 feet square. 


Soft loose pile. Pale turquoise and dark blue are used together 
throughout, in a square field enclosing an openwork medallion, 
and in a formal border, both having white ground. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 18 
CHINESE RECESS-RUG 
Breadth, 2 feet 2 inches; depth, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Arched top; square at the bottom. Varicolored lattice surround- 
ing an inner arched figure enclosing a medallion of flowers. 


No. 14 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 
Dimensions, 2 feet by 1 foot 11 inches. 


Square field of golden brown, with a manifold floral decoration 
in various soft colors, and a floral medallion in which dark and 
light blue are added. Pale yellowish-brown border, with folia- 
tions, Shou medallions and emblematic bats. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 15 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 4 inches square. 
On fawn ground within a square are scrolling foliations and a 
medallion of foliations and angular scroll, in two shades of blue, 
orange-brown and pale-gold. Border of bold swastika-fret in 
sapphire-blue on the fawn ground. Eighteenth century. 


No. 16 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 5 inches square. 


A tawny-yellow field with brilliant sheen is worked with pale- 
golden foliations which all but vanish in its luster. Foliar scrolls 
in dark sapphire and fair turquoise, with white, form a square 
within it and in turn enclose a medallion of flower and butterfly 
motives in the beautiful colors of the field. Eighteenth century. 


No. 17 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Dimensions, 2 feet 6 inches square. 
Grayish-white ground warming to an écru tone, with a soft sheen. 
Composite medallion of floral and angular-scroll forms, on a 


square field with corner foliations; broad foliate border; all in 
blue of two tones and soft, rich quality. Eighteenth century. 


No. 18 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Dimensions, 2 feet 6 inches square. 
The “white” ground is a pale café-au-lait or light fawn, with soft, 
silken sheen. Ornate medallion and foliate corners in a square 


field; border of foliations and emblematic bats; all in sapphire 
and turquoise blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 19 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE MATS — 
Length, 2 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


In the form of chair-seats. Soft pile, the ground of brownish 
tone, decorated with a peony-blossom, foliations and a border of 
formal flowers in two shades of blue, and white. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


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No. 20 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 5 inches by 2 feet 4 inches. 


Short, soft, silky pile. The ground a shimmering silvery gray, 
bordered by a band of especially rich seal-brown, a similar band 
separating the border proper from the square field. Within the 
square, a medallion and formal corners of angular fret-scroll 
in golden-yellow, golden-brown and light sky-blue; in the border 
a succession of small medallions in detached groups of three, 


in blue and gold. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 21 


TWO SQUARE MATS 
Length, 2 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Red borders with running ornamentation along formal lines, in 
blue, pearl-gray, light yellow and dark brown, about squares cen- 
tered by conventional fern-leaf medallions—the colors of me- 
dallions and corners varying in the two rugs. 


No. 22 


‘CHINESE RECESS-RUG 
Breadth, 2 feet 10 inches; depth, 2 feet. 10 inches. 


Glowing imperial yellow ground, decorated at the base with a 
wave motive, in the central field with a lion supporting a vase 
on its back and surrounded by Buddhist emblems of happy 
augury, and in a border edging the sides and in the arched top 
with scrolling foliations—all in a variety of browns and yel- 
lows, white, and two tones of blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 23 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 10 inches by 2 feet 7 inches. 


A formal, conventional trellis of floral elements is traced in sap- 
phire-blue and garnet, both subdued, on a dark deer-skin ground, 
within a border of the swastika-fret. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 24 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 7 inches. 
Field and border-ground of dark écru tone, supporting a decora- 
tion of center-medallion and corners in angular scroll, and a 
border of swastika-fret scroll, all in an even tone of dull grayish- 
blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 25 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 7 inches square. 


Seal-brown, cobalt-blue and white are used on a light golden- 
yellow ground in a complex decoration involving various con- 
ventional patterns within a square field; border of foliations in 
like colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 26 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 7 inches. 


Central medallion picturing a phoenix standing upon a rock, in 
two tones of blue, yellow, brown and white, enclosed within a 
square having a brown ground; fret border in white and broader 
border of a conventional floral lattice in tones of yellow, brown, 
blue and white. Ch/’ien-lung. 


Noses 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 8 inches by 2 feet 6 inches. 


Soft, velvety pile. Fawn ground inclining to tawny, with a light 
sheen. The decoration is wholly in the conventionalized archaic- 
dragon motive, which appears in an angular scroll-fret in medal- 
lion and corners, all in a brilliant dark blue outlined in a pale 
blue and in white. Eighteenth century. 


No. 28 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 7 inches by 2 feet 5 inehes. 


“Blue and white” as to class, the whole ground now a soft smoke- 
gray with silvery mottlings; decoration in dark and lighter blue 
consists of floral medallions and foliar scrolls within a square, 
and similar patterns in the border. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 29 


PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 
Dimensions, 2 feet 7 inches square. 
A square field of golden-tawny hue, with swastika corners, em- 
braces a medallion containing two primitive Fu-lions in pale gold 
and reddish-bronze—in one rug the reddish-bronze being replaced 


by a rich seal-brown. Elaborate swastika-fret border in the 
same low, harmonious tones. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 80 


PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE MATS 

Length, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 
Red-brown field, decorated in low golden and blue tones and dull 
white, with ancient sacrificial vessels, screens, jars of plants and 
other ornamental objects, and exhibiting a medallion and dragon- 


scroll corners. Harmonious border in a low key, embodying 
formal designs and familiar symbols. Eighteenth century. 


No. 81 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 
Rich orange field with a golden-bronze sheen, decorated with two 
large sprays and a medallion of the peony scroll in pink and 


white, sapphire and turquoise; corners of angular scroll in the 
two blues. Floral scroll border. Eighteenth century. 


No. 82 


ANTIQUE CHINESE OVAL MAT 
Length, 3 feet 3 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Fawn tone of soft quality prevailing. In the oval field a swastika- 
lattice of brownish hue, carrying numerous small medallions some 
of which enclose the Show symbol. Other small medallions of 
various decoration dot the wide border. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 33 


CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Pale yellow border with the endless knot at each corner, and deco- 
rations of medallions and characters or other symbols, about an 
oblong field of brown cut with a lattice embodying floral forms 
in different colors. 


No. 34 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Conventional lattice between formal corners and a foliar me- 
dallion, effected in a brilliant greenish golden-yellow, pinkish- 
browns, dark and light blue and white. Border similarly colored. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 35 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 9 inches. 


Orange-pink field of crenellate outline and angular-scroll forma- 
tion, picked out in bright yellow, white, and light and dark blue, 
and overlaid with a diamond-shaped figure comprehending numer- 
ous geometrical forms and repetitions of the swastika symbol. 
Interrupted T-fret border. Eighteenth century. 


No. 36 


PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE MATS 
Length, 3 feet; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Tawny-brown field with an archaic-dragon medallion, floral 
sprays and foliations, in dull golden-yellow, golden-brown, pink, 
sapphire, pale turquoise and gray-white. Pinkish-brown fret 
border. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 37 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and brown) 
Length, 3 feet; width, 2 feet. 
Tawny-brown ground of soft tone, without border whatsoever. 
Its decoration eight archaic dragons, conventionalized in foliate 
lines and exhibited in a rich and glowing blue of deep sapphire 
quality. Two are coiled in a medallion, one is curled in each cor- 
ner, and two others appear between medallion and the ends. A 
rare and handsome example of this characteristic brown and re- 
markable blue. Seventeenth century. 


No. 88 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 

Length, 3 feet 3 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 
Angular-scroll medallion with brocade flowers, between branching 
foliations, on an oblong field with scroll-fret corners enclosing 
the swastika symbol. Border of foliations. All in two shades of 
blue. The white ground has become a dark gray. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 39 


ANTIQUE CHINESE ROUND MAT 
(Salmon-red ) 
Diameter, 3 feet 2 inches. 
Close, thick pile. Rich, full and brilliant salmon-red is the 
ground, both in the bold border of scrolling foliations in dark 
and light blue and white, and in the circular field. The field is 
adorned with peony, plum, chrysanthemum and bamboo sprays, 
and a fret-scroll and foliate medallion, all worked in the two 
blues and white. Leather-bound. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 40 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 

Length, 3 feet; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 
Brownish-white ground throughout with a silvery sheen. Central 
medallion of swastika-fret; elsewhere on the field, and in the bor- 
der, graceful foliations. All the decoration in a brilliant sap- 
phire-blue. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 41 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 3 feet square. 


A wide lattice border surrounds a square divided into four com- 
partments by angular fret-scroll, each compartment containing 
a conventional floral medallion. ‘The colors employed are red, 
green, brown and blue, all in low tones, and the fabric is bordered 
or bounded by a narrow band of soft red. Fringe ends and over- 
cast sides. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 42 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 3 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Oblong field of grayish tone, the principal decoration two Fu- 
lions, one standing guard over the brocaded ball; the other is a 
cub with wide-open jaws. Fret border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 48 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Soft, silky pile, with a bright sheen. Latticed field with conven- 
tionalized floral figures, in a light sky-blue, golden-yellow and 
dark orange, with a brilliant medallion and formal corners. In- 
terrupted T-fret border with a dominant ground of dark blue, 
the fret and some detached blossoms being worked in yellow, light 
blue, orange and white. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 44 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Two full medallions and two half medallions appear on the dark 
blue field, with quadrants at the corners, the pattern of all a 
compound of floral forms and angular-scroll, the colors light blue 
and white with the dark blue reserve. Border of vases, fruits 
and flower forms. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 45 


SQUARE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet. 


Soft, deep, loose pile. A study in browns. Within a light brown 
edge-band an alternating-fret border in deep dark brown courses 
over a fawn ground, while the square field reveals the same and 
other browns in an open lattice whose crossings are adorned with 


bright red blossoms. 


No. 46 


PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT'S 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Soft pile and loose texture. Oblong field enclosed by a double 
stripe of sapphire and turquoise-blue; the same colors supply 
branching foliations and an angular-fret medallion encompassing 
two bats. Fret corners in solid blue. Border of foliations and 
detached blossoms in the two blues. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 47 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet. 


A soft and handsome brown prevails throughout the rug, ‘n a 
border of foliations and a field covered by an open lattice, the 
foliations being effected in part in a dark and modest blue and 
the same hue being used again for minor ornaments within some 
of the spaces of the lattice. Eighteenth century. 


No. 48 


CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Foliations worked into a medallion, and others as broad sprays 
at either end, all done in cobalt-blue and pale turquoise, form the 
principal decorations of the white field, which has fret corners 
of solid blue. Border of cobalt swastikas alternating with de- 
tached blossoms, in turquoise on the white ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 49 


CHINESE MAT 
(Variegated) 
Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet. 


An unique production. A most unusual fabric, seeming to rep- 
resent the greater part of the Celestial textile worker’s chro- 
matic range. The entire rug is an interesting medley of lateral 
striations, multicolored, shimmering, iridescent, evidently the im- 
provisation of a weaver who gave his imagination and handiwork 
free play. The only formal design appearing is a group of 
small swastika symbols at one end. 


No. 50 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet. 


The repetitive design of the conventional “tiger-stripe”’ fills the 
rug on either side of a median “chain,” or spinal ridge; both in 
brown on a golden-tawny ground. The pile is soft and silky. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


. No. 51 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Gray fawn ground, with a quadrilateral field displaying a formal 
arrangement of ornament, including angular scrolls, foliations 
and geometrical devices. These are effected in dark and light 
blue and white, but with an unusual infusion of a bright red 
which greatly enlivens the rug, appearing again in a lattice- 
meander border. Eighteenth century. 


No. 52 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Short, soft, silky pile. Soft grayish-white field, with trees and 
mountains; at one end a spotted stag, at the other an unspotted 
doe; overhead between them, flying phcnixes and emblematic 
bats, and nascent butterflies; all in dark indigo and light gray- 
ish-blue, with white reserve. A border of white spots on dark 
blue, a narrow meander border of mixed blue with white, and a 
remarkable and unusual border comprising a succession of small 
swastikas on a broad white meander. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 53 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Brillant golden-yellow, orange and rose pink, golden-brown, and 
dark blue and cobalt, on a white ground—these colors make this 
mat a bright one. The white oblong field has a wide-branching 
spray in the same bright colors, at either end, outside a foliate 
medallion enclosing an angular scroll, and at the corners blue 
foliations around a flower with pointed petals. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 54 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue, white and yellow) 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Two spotted stags, emblems of long life, and two phenixes are 
shown in a mountainous landscape, in two tones of blue, tawny- 
yellow and pale gold on a soft white ground; bold swastika bor- 
der in blue on white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 55 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. 


At either end of the gray-white field a Fu-lion, emerging from 
the shade of a tree by the seashore, fixes his attention upon a 
spotted stag, emblem of longevity, which in turn gazes upward 
at a symbolic bat (emblem of happiness), flying near conven- 
tional cloud-scrolls which take the form of the sacred fungus— 
another emblem of longevity. The whole is accomplished in varied 
blues, and the field presents also two conventional floral forms in 
brownish-yellow. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 56 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Field of a rich dark yellow with brownish tone and mild sheen, 
ornamented with a foliate medallion and various sprays in dark 
blue, white and brown. Dark brown border with blue foliations. 
Ch’ien-lung. (Repaired. ) 


First Afternoon 


No. 57 


CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. 


An alternating fret border surrounds a long field having scroll 
corners turning on a swastika; in the field, broad foliations and 
a composite medallion; all in two shades of blue on white ground. 
Ch’ien-lung. 

No. 58 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 8 feet 9 inches. 


The “white” of the long field is a ight deerskin hue with a soft 
sheen. The decoration comprises four Fu-lions, glaring at each 
other in pairs, with open jaws, between graceful foliations, and 
an archaic-dragon medallion; all are in brilliant sapphire and 
pale washed-turquoise. Brilliant sapphire border with a scroll 
of flowers in white reserve. Eighteenth century. 


No. 59 
ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Deep marine blue, with slow shimmer, the field adorned with floral 
motives and the border similarly treated with the addition of 
symbols, in various quiet tones of yellow, brown and orange, light 
blue and white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 60 


ANTIQUE CHINESE TIGER-STRIPE MAT — 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 
Through a tawny ground a rich, dark seal-brown chain runs 
down the median line of the mat from end to end, like a vertebral 
column, and on either side the balance of the fabric is filled with 


curling brown “tiger-stripe” sinuosities on the same tawny 
ground. Overcast sides; fringed ends. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 61 
CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Yellowish rice color in field and border, decorated with a variety 
of small medallions. 


First Afternoon 


No. 62 
CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Leaf-brown throughout its surface, with the formal foliate deco- 
rations of field and border in blue so dark it appears black. 


No. 63 
ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Oblong field with a pale greenish-yellow ground, decorated in 
two shades of blue and other hues with a variety of household 
ornaments and a floral medallion. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 64 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 
Oblong field of pinkish hue, decorated with elaborate scrolling 
foliations in light and dark blue, about a medallion of angular- 


scroll outline enclosing a square of swastikas and flowers. Swas- 
tika-fret border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 65 
ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Deep, thick pile. Rich dark blue with a fine sheen, ornamented 
in field and border in dull golden tones—the field with medallion, 
broad sprays and formal corners, the border with foliations and 
butterflies. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 66 
CHINESE MAT 
(Blue, white and red) 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 
Eight lions in light blue and white, their muzzles outlined in red, 


share a deep blue field with sprays and fungus-scrolls, Shou me- 
dallions and swastika symbols; grill border. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 67 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 
Tawny-brown field, its corners bright yellow with rich sapphire 
foliations, the field itself covered with formal floral figures about 
a foliate medallion, all in bright yellow, pale and dark blue, soft 
white and orange-brown. Ruibbon-scroll border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 68 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 
Fruit and flower sprays, butterflies, a foliar medallion, and angu- 
lar-fret corners enclosing the swastika symbol are done in two 
shades of blue on a toned white ground. Swastika-fret border. 
Ch’ien-lung. 
No. 69 
ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 
On a light tan oblong field a composite fret and foliate medallion, 
a bundle of books, the endless knot and other symbols, with dishes 
of fruit and jars of flowers, in sapphire and turquoise blue. Fret 


borders. Ch’ien-lung. 
No. 70 


CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 3 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Medallion and foliations, with fret and swastika corners, in two 
shades of blue on a drab field; fret border in the same colors. 


No. 71 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. 


Within a tree-medallion in the center of the oblong field a saddled 
horse is tied to a limb, horse and trees worked in two shades 
of blue, white and pale golden-yellow on a tawny ground. The 
tawny ground is continued across the field, which has corners of 
angular fret in two tones of blue, and expansive foliations worked 
in elaborate conventions in pale gold, golden-brown and white. 
Border in harmony. Ch/’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 72 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. 
Soft gray-white ground without borders whatever. Heavy cor- 
ners of key-fret turning on a swastika; central medallion of fret 
and foliations; detached tripods and other ornamental figures ; 


all in brilliant, full, sapphire-blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 73 


CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. 
The white softened to a light-brownish shade, the field decorated 
with boxes of shrubs and ancient ornamental or useful vessels, 
with foliations and a medallion, in dark sapphire and turquoise- 
blue and occasional touches of a pale yellow. Formal border. 


No. 74 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. 
The “endless knot,”’ eighteen times repeated, in white on a bril- 
lant blue ground, within a border containing twenty-nine repeti- 
tions of the same device in orange-pink on a gray-white ground. 


Ch’ien-lung. 
No. 75 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. 


Eighteen repetitions of the “endless knot,” from the “Eight 
Buddhistic Emblems of Happy Augury,” in a mixed blue on a 
soft white ground; in the border the same emblem twenty-nine 
times repeated, in white on a rosy pink ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 76 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. 
Ground of grayish-blue of “powder-blue”’ quality, divided into a 
border containing thirty conventional archaic dragons in medal- 
lion scrolls, and a field of swastika-lattice, both the medallions 
and the lattice in deep, dark blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. (77 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 


(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. 


Grayish-white ground with two spotted stags and two pheenixes 
near hillside trees, and emblematic bats flying about the pheenixes ; 
all in two shades of blue. Swastika border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 78 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. 


Rich dark ruby-red field of solid color, defined by narrow white 
and cobalt-blue stripes; border of soft gray-white, and an outer 
band of blue. Thick pile. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 79 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Salmon-pink ground in both field and border; ornamentation 
throughout in a dark, deep blue, with the exception of a narrow 
inner border of white fret. The decoration consists of an 
archaic-dragon medallion, conventional peony sprays and folia- 
tions, and with the foliations in the border several small sym- 
bolic medallions. Eighteenth century. 


e 


No. 80 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Rich, deep yellow is the predominant note in the field, which 
pictures a landscape in the mountains, with two horses tied to 
trees ina valley. The horses are white, with turquoise manes and 
tails, and wear gaily colored saddles. ‘The trees and rocks are in 
a variety of colors. Two fret borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 81 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Yellow-brown field, with a leaf and flower decoration in corners 
and throughout, and a medallion in darker brown tones, dark 
blue and a bluish-green. Swastika-fret border in the several 
colors. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 82 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Quadrilateral field of écru tone, bearing a medallion compounded 
of a temple ornament and foliations; and various floral sprays, 
baskets of fruits, ancient tripods and other ornaments, in two 
shades of blue, white and light brown. Floral and foliate bor- 
der. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 83 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


The feng-huang and the dragon-headed horse are seen in a medal- 
lion, in pale blue, white and light brown, in the center of a deep 
and brilliant blue field which is further decorated with sprays 
and vases, and corners of the archaic dragon-scroll. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 84 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


The spotted stag at one end, a deer in solid color at the other, 
each with the feng-huang flying above it, appear beneath large 
trees with spreading branches growing from mountain slopes or 
hillsides. All in two shades of blue, with a pinkish-brown relief, 
on a gray-white field. Broad swastika-fret border in dark and 
light blue, white, pinkish-brown and golden-yellow. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 85 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


On the oblong field, which has taken a soft tone and satiny sheen, 
an angular-fret medallion and corner ornaments, and bold, ex- 
pansive foliations or conventional floral sprays, in dark and 
lighter shades of blue, the floral forms slightly varying at the 
two ends. Involved swastika-fret border. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 86 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT' 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Deep thick pile. Light mustard-yellow field, with scroll corners 
of salmon hue, the field strewn with detached blossoms in salmon, 
white, seal-brown and blue, about a medallion of floral forms in- 
volving all these colors. ‘Two fret borders. ~ Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 87 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Deep golden-yellow field with angular-fret corners in sapphire 
and turquoise-blue and white, the fret motive being repeated in 
the same colors within a foliate medallion whose foliations are in 
white, pink and brown; on the field peony-sprays in all of these 
colors. Brilliant borders in fret designs. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 88 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(A rare purple) 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


This rug, on the order of the “blue and whites” and some of 
their variants, as to decoration and arrangement, presents a most 
unusual color scheme. The white ground, become a soft gray, 
carries the spotted stag and doe and the flying feng-huang, 
among large trees by the mountain sides, in soft, attractive tones 
of purple, olive-yellow, pale café-au-lait, sky-blue and copper-red. 
Principal border a swastika-fret in purple on the gray-white 
ground-color, bounded by a band of solid purple, all in soft 
tone. This purple is a rarity in rugs. Eighteenth century. 


No. 89 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet. 
Grayish-white field of silvery tone, quadrangular, adorned in dark ' 
sapphire-blue and pale turquoise-green with a variety of jars, 
vases and tripods, some holding flower branches. Border of 
foliations and medallions. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 90 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Golden yellow, with the sheen of gold-bronze. Both field and 
principal border yield the golden tones, and both have a complex 
decoration, effected for the most part in the bright colors—pale, 
delicate blue and a soft white, with relieving touches of dark 
blue mingling with the golden browns and yellows. In the field 
are many vases and other ornaments, and flowers. In the border 
are worked together numerous motives usually found separately 
in the borders of widely varying rugs. Inner border of Greek 
fret in white on blue, and an outer binding stripe of blue. Ejigh- 
teenth century. 


No. 91 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


The “‘white” of the field is a light creamy brown or pale café-au- 
lait, of soft tone. The decoration, which includes a composite 
medallion, varying sprays, and angular-fret corners, is in a light 
sapphire-blue of subdued brilliance. A narrow border of in- 
numerable repetitions of the emblematic bat in miniature repre- 
sentation, in the same blue on the same soft ground, is suc- 
ceeded by a swastika-fret. Eighteenth century. 


No. 92 


CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


An orange field is cut into an open lattice by fine lines of greenish- 
yellow, the spaces being occupied by conventional figures in blue 
and white and pink and yellow, and golden-brown. The corners 
are brilliant yellow decorated in dark blue and orange, and the 
medallion is similarly decorated, with an emphatic use of the 
blue. Scroll-fret border in the several colors, continuing the gen- 
eral brightness of effect. 


First Afternoon 


No. 93 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Field of deep sunset yellows, with a glow; at either end formal 
mountains, trees and a fierce kilin, in various yellows, browns, 
blues and pinks. In the center a phenix, flying, in dark and light 
blue, pink, white and golden-brown, and near it the endless knot 
symbol. Wide and narrow borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 94 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


A border with a ground of ruby and rose is inlaid with foliations 
and the “endless knot” symbol in glowing sapphire and pale 
green, soft white and golden-brown. Within is a T-fret border 
in sapphire and white on a ground of pale aqua-marine, the whole 
embracing a field of formal lattice and a medallion worked in 
blue, green, white, brown, garnet, and a warm and bright orange- 
yellow. Ejighteenth century. 


No. 95 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Café-au-lait ground with orange and salmon, dark and light blue 
and golden-brown decoration, in medallion and corners of angu- 
lar-fret, and detached leaf-and-flower sprays. Swastika border: 
in blue on the ground-color, implanted with floral forms in orange 
and yellow notes. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 96 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Autumn-brown field, arched at one end, with scattered leaf and 
blossom sprays in seal-brown, bright canary-yellow, white and 
two shades of blue. Border of foliations in the same colors. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 97 


CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Field of small squares with intervening stars and small swastikas, 
around a foliated medallion, in various blues, yellows, browns and 
white, the corners sapphire with scrolls of rich orange-brown. 


No. 98 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Quadrilateral field in peach-tone, threaded by a swastika trellis 
in lighter note, interrupted by conventional sprays in two shades 
of blue and gray-white, and surrounding a golden-yellow foliate 
medallion. Corners of scrolling foliations; two fret borders. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 99 


CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Pink and brown field, freely decorated with floral motives in 
scarlet and light golden-yellow, dark and light blue and white, 
the field enclosing a medallion with a Fu-lion, and similar colors 
being used in the border. 


No. 100 
ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Ground of crushed-strawberry hue with a floral lattice in light 
greenish-yellow, light and dark blue, white and pink, with foliate 
medallion and corners. Bright border of foliations and conven- 
tional blossoms in similar colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 100A 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Similar to the preceding (No. 100). 


First Afternoon 


No. 101 


CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 
Cadet blue with medallions and sprays in yellow, white, brown 
and a dull wine-red; light yellow border with sprays in light and 
dark blue, brown and white. 


No. 102 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet. 
Two phenixes flying among peony branches form a medallion, in 
two shades of blue picked out with light brown. The same colors 
are used in scrolling peony foliations in the field. At the corners 
the archaic dragon in conventional scroll in the two blues. Bor- 
der of foliations in the two blues and brown, and white reserve, 
with butterflies at the corners. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 103 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet. 
Foliar medallion, extensive foliations in the field, and angular- 
fret corners, with a bold swastika border, all in a brilliant sap- 
phire on a gray-white ground of pearly tone. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 104 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet. 
The field is a light tan and is adorned with sprays and conven- 
tional butterflies in two shades of blue and a light brown. Foliar 
border. Eighteenth century. 


No. 105 
ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Soft, thick pile. Gray-blue field with leaf-scroll corners, flower 
sprays and a foliar and scroll medallion in golden yellow, pinkish- 
brown, pale blue and white. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 106 


CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Conventional floral motives adorn medallion, corners and general 
field, in pink, pale yellow, white and two shades of blue, on a 
brown ground. In the border, foliations and small symbolic me- 
dallions in several colors on a salmon-pink ground. 


No. 107 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 


(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


The field of grayish-white, with two deer at either end, one of 
each pair in solid dark blue, the other in pale bluish-green with 
dark-blue spots. Over the head of the spotted animal at either 
end of the rug is a flying phoenix, and in the middle of the field 
are conventional scrolls, in blue; and here and there is a touch 
of glowing orange. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 108 


' ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Pinkish-brown field with floral sprays in bright golden-yellow and 
white, other sprays with two shades of blue added, and a me- 
dallion and corners of angular fret embodying the several colors. 
Brilliant border of foliations. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 109 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Leaf-brown field, decorated in old-gold and white, dark sapphire 
and pale olive, with formal peony scrolls and foliations and a 
medallion involving the key-fret and the swastika symbol. Bor- 
der of foliations, Show medallions and symbolic bats, in yellows, 
browns, dull white, deep blue and olive. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 110 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Brilliant golden-yellow is conspicuous in the decoration of this 
rug, freely used with sapphire-blue and dull turquoise-green, and 
white, in the floral medallion, jars and vases of flowers, and in 
the angular-fret corners. Swastika-fret border in sapphire on a 
bright yellow ground, with interruptions of conventional blos- 
soms. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 111 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Rich, deep, soft brown with a delicate sheen, the field of this rug 
carries a decoration profuse yet restrained, in a veiled golden- 
yellow, dark, unglowing sapphire, pale olive and brownish-white. 
The details include floral forms and butterflies. Ribbon-scroll 
border in the same harmonious tones. Eighteenth century. 


No. 112 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


On a light café-au-lait ground of creamy tone a medallion of 
the tree peony and other forms, presenting two birds in the 
branches, in dark blue and turquoise-green, brown, orange and 
yellow, and elsewhere on the field numerous household ornaments 
in similar colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 113 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Creamy café-au-lait ground, with light shimmer, decked with 
peony sprays in deep sapphire, golden yellow, soft pale brown 
and strong salmon pink, conventional butterflies appearing among 
the sprays. Eighteenth century. (Repaired.) 


Furst Afternoon 


No. 114 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


A grill of geometric pattern, in heavy curved lines of brilliant 
sapphire and lighter concentric lines of turquoise-green and 
white, spreads over a brilliant brown field, the interstices occupied 
by emblematic bats and various flower forms. Swastika border 
in yellows and browns, white and blue. Eighteenth century. 


No. 115 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Red and black) 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Short, silky pile. Ground of mottled red, hatched with short 
and narrow vertical lines in black, in wavy and straight hori- 
zontal bands. In the center a Shou medallion in black, the 
hatched lines at either side of it being of horizontal direction and 
» arranged in bands of concentric rings. Seventeenth century. 


No. 116 
CHINESE MAT 


Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


On the oblong white field a decoration which includes a com- 
posite medallion, corners of foliations, boxes of shrubs and jars 
holding ancient battle-axes, done in dark and light blue, light 
greenish-yellow and copper-brown. Alternating fret border. 


No. 117 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


A field and border with imperial yellow tones of great brillancy 
are decorated in dark and pale blue, and white, the border with 
scrolls and foliations, the field with foliar corners, vases and 
jars of plants, and a medallion enclosing a spotted stag and a 
Fu-lion. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 118 


CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 
Field of orange tone decorated with a medallion, floral sprays 


and butterflies, in many colors, and an elaborated border in the 
same colors—bright greens, yellows and reds being freely used. 


No. 119 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 
On a field of scintillant deep blue are seen butterflies and flowers, 
and rambling foliations, in joyous yellows, light blue and white, 
around a medallion in which appear the phoenix and the dragon- 
horse. Formal border of all these colors, with the lighter used 
as the ground. Eighteenth century. 


No. 120 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Rich dark blue field, decorations of flower sprays, foliations and 
a medallion in yellow, brown, white and lighter blue. 


No. 121 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Brown-tawny field with a light sheen. Boxes of flowering shrubs 
and a floral medallion in a pale greenish-yellow, canary, white, 
and two shades of blue, and at the corners archaic dragons in 
the conventionalized scroll, with foliations. Border of foliations 
and scrolls, with the twin-fish and endless-knot symbols from the 
Eight Buddhistic Emblems of Happy Augury. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 122 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Field of brownish-red with a salmon tone, decorated in dark and 
light blue, white and écru with fruit and flower sprays, butter- 
flies and angular scrolls; reciprocating-fret border in the two 
blues on the same ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 123 


CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 


Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 
Conventional floral sprays, foliations, and a composite foliate and 


angular-scroll medallion, in two tones of blue on a bright white 
field; alternating-fret border. 


No. 124 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Field of golden-tawny hue with light sheen; its decoration five 
composite medallions of angular-fret and conventional floral 
forms, besides butterflies, in brown, light blue and white; at either 
end the ancient convention of tossing waves, in similar coloring. 
Fringe ends; sides bound. Seventeenth century. 


No. 125 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Long salmon-red field; decorations in sapphire and turquoise, 
golden-yellow and soft white, including scrolls and foliations, 
sprays and butterflies, and a medallion. Swastika border. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 126 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 3 feet 9 inches. 


Quadrangular field of octagonal lattice in white and a rich blue 
on imperial yellow, interrupted by various emblems and devices— 
among them the endless-knot and a fish—in the same colors with 
orange and brown variants. Fringe ends and overcast sides. 


Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 127 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Brownish-white quadrangular field, centered by a foliar medallion, 
and dotted elsewhere by small medallions and geometrical figures 
including two medallions of the Show character, in dark and light 
blue and the white ground reserve. ‘Three varied and elaborate 
borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 128 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 7 inches. 


A sapphire field is decorated with two dogs Fu, which are guard- 
ing a ball, in a medallion, and with two more of the dogs with a 
ball over their heads, at each end, while elsewhere appear butter- 
flies and foliations; all in light blue and white with patches of 
brown. Formal border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 129 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Gray field with orange corners of angular scroll, a medallion of 
foliations, and numerous fruits, sprays and boxes of plants, in 
dark blue, brown, light blue, pale yellow and orange tones. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 180 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 5 feet; width, 2 feet 5. inches. 


The white ground has taken a light tan tone; the decoration is in 
rich dark blue and a bluish-green. Five of the Fu-lions appear 
in a medallion, and two more at either end of the field, which 
they share with various conventional foliations. Borders of 
foliations and fret. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 1381 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 5 feet; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Creamy-white field centered by a foliar medallion and scattered 
with sprays of the peony, plum, bamboo, lotus and other forms, 
and having archaic scrolling dragons at the corners. All in dark 
blue and gray-blue, as is the border, which is worked in folia- 
tions, Shou medallions and bat emblems. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 132 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 8 inches. 


Silvery blue field, plentifully ornamented with sprays and formal 
devices and a single medallion, in browns and yellows of low tones. 
Border of foliations, leaf and Show medallions in the same tones 
on the same soft silvery blue ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 133 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. 


Soft, deep, silky pile. Chrome-yellow latticed field with a bright 
sheen, enclosing a foliated medallion with light brown ground 
sustaining a foliar scroll in light and dark blue and white. 
Corners and wide border in accord. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 134 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 8 inches. 


A large Fu-lion and five bats appear with foliations in a central 
medallion, in a field of peony-sprays and large and small butter- 
flies, all in sapphire-blue and turquoise tones on a _ brownish- 
white ground. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 135 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 7 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches. 


Flesh-pink field of oblong shape, with corner foliations and floral 
branches in light and dark blue, dull white and subdued yellows, 
and a foliate medallion enclosing a spotted stag. Border of 
floral forms on a dark blue field. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 136 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Smoky-gray field filled with conventional sprays and foliations 
about a foliate and scrolled medallion, all in dark and lighter 
blue, orange and old-gold. Ribbon border forming the swastika 
scroll-fret in orange and gold on dark blue ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 137 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. 


The field is in the hue of the pink tomato, and has a light luster. 
It is without corners or medallion, carrying instead an evenly 
distributed and carefully balanced decoration of peonies and 
conventional butterflies in white, sapphire-blue and a pale gray- 
ish-blue. Blue border with foliations in the grayish blue and 
blossoms in white. Eighteenth century. 


No. 188 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches. 


Western Chinese workmanship, with an oblong field of dark blue 
ground, the key changing in the characteristic manner of the 
nearer East in carpet weaving; this ground is covered with an 
all-over repeat pattern of a conventionalized tree form in white. 
This is interrupted at the center by a medallion of foliate de- 
signs in light and dark blue, white and yellow, and foliations are 
worked in the corners. Eighteenth century. (Corner restored.) 


First Afternoon 


No. 139 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Tawny-brown ground of soft tone, with a variety of house and 
garden ornaments in sapphire, turquoise, orange, white and old- 
gold. Swastika-fret border in brilliant, deep sapphire, on a 
ground of golden yellow. Eighteenth century. 


No. 140 


ORIENTAL RUG 
Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet. 


Thick, close pile. Tawny-yellow ground, disclosing various tones 
according to the light; decorated in dark and light blue, white, 
pinks and reddish-browns with conventional butterflies, a carp, 
an endless knot, formal ornamental devices, and at the ends con- 
ventional reflections of the ancient wave motive. End-borders 
of varicolored wavy splashes, and side borders of foliations. 


No. 141 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches. 


Pinkish-brown field with a brilliant sheen, adorned with a kilin- 
and-phenix medallion, ancient sacrificial vessels, garden and 
household ornaments, and sprays, besides fret-scroll corners, in 
sapphire and turquoise-blue, white, pale golden-yellow and brown. 
Sapphire swastika-fret border on the body color. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 142 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet; width, 4 feet. 


Brown-tawny ground, still of agreeable note though worn thin, 
carrying as decoration nine of the Fu-lions, three of them being 
grouped at the center, and detached units of the peony scroll. 
The decoration is effected in a pure and brilliant sapphire-blue, 
pale gold, golden-brown, turquoise and white. Harmonious bor- 
der of formal design. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 148 


CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet. 
Luxurious ornamentation of the peony-scroll in sapphire-blue 


and turquoise, pale yellow, white and golden-brown on a tawny 
field. Bright border in similar colors. Eighteenth century. 


No. 144 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 1 inch. 
Brilliant tawny-yellow ground, latticed with a semblance of the 
“grains of rice” effect in irregular seal-brown patches. In a 
disc within a cloud-medallion in the center, the spotted stag with 


a phoenix flying over him, and in each corner two archaic dragons 
with foliations. Eighteenth century. 


No. 145 


ANTIQUE RUG 
(Blue, red and brown) 
Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches. 


Dense pile. A dark sapphire parallelogram is thickly sprinkled 
with small red spheroids; in the center is a deer-skin medallion 
with devices in light and dark blue, white, yellow and red; quad- 
rant corners; various borders. 


No. 146 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 
Eight large peony blossoms on their stems, two butterflies and 
five medallions of scrolls and foliations, all in light and dark 
blue, make up the decoration of the white field. Border of folia- 
tions in the two blues on white ground. Eighteenth century. 


No. 147 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches. 


Four chrysanthemum medallions and six large peony sprays ap- 
pear with butterflies and fruits in bright yellows and brilliant 
blues, white and tender pinks, on a salmon ground with a light 


sheen. Ch’ien-lung. (Repaired.) 


First Afternoon 


No. 148 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches. 


Five medallions of foliar scrolls in two shades of blue are disposed 
in a copper field, the interspaces filled with scrolling foliations in 
the same colors. Blue and white border of conventional design. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 149 


CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 4 inches. 


Mustard-yellow field strewn with small medallions displaying 
various symbols—the Show character, the endless knot, the 
swastika—and conventional floral forms, with angular-scroll cor- 
ners enclosing other swastikas, and a large central medallion of 
a flying stork. The colors are orange-brown, dark and light — 
blue, white, yellow and green. Scroll, meander and medallion bor- 
ders in the various colors mentioned. 


No. 150 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


Soft, short; loose pile. Field of warm terra-cotta hue, carrying 
a decoration of five foliar medallions of delicate design, conven- 
tional butterflies and sprays of the winter-blooming plum tree, 
the Buddha’s-hand citron and the pomegranate, in cobalt and 
sapphire blues and white. Fylfot border in sapphire on the 
ground-color of the field. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 151 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 7 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches. 


Oblong field of pale golden tone, in which the nine Fus are dis- 
posed in unusual fashion, four at one end of the field and five at 
the other, most of them in dark and light blue, touched with 
white, the others in color resembling the field but more yellow. 
In the center is a foliar medallion and elsewhere are various sym- 
bols. Elaborate fylfot scroll or fret border. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 152 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 7 inches; width, 4 feet 8 inches. 


On a ground of faint rose-pink an unusual ornamentation of leaf 
and flower scroll in dark and light blue and white, reticulated in 
a maze. Corners of key fret around the swastika. Fret border 
in yellow on blue, deep at the ends and narrow at the sides, fol- 
lowed by a border of foliations holding the same dimensions 
throughout its course. Eighteenth century. 


No. 158 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


Originally of the blue and white class, the white field of this rug 
is now of a soft creamy café-au-lait tone, with a light sheen. 
The decoration includes sprays and fruit clusters, butterflies and 
five medallions, all effected in two shades of blue, and there are 
also formal corners of foliations in the same colors. Border of 
gammadions run into a continuous fret. Eighteenth century. 


No. 154 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG MAT 
(Brilliant polychrome) 
Length, 7 feet 5 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. 


Soft velvety pile. Oblong field of rich café-au-lait or golden- 
fawn, with corners of the archaic dragon-scroll in cerise accented 
with white and enclosing an old-gold swastika. Flower-sprays 
and jars of plants, and a medallion of foliations about a lesser 
disc of angular-scroll and the swastika, all in the colors already 
mentioned, with the addition of rich brown and pale rose-pink. 
Varicolored swastika-fret border. Fringe ends. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 155 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 3 inches; width, 3 feet 11 inches. 


A fylfot lattice in tawny-yellow and orange-brown covers the 
field, which has at its center a foliated medallion in dark and 
light blue, white and brown. At the sides are borders of folia- 
tions in light blue, white and brown, on a dark blue ground, and 
at the ends are rocks and waves in a vivid pink, seal-brown, white, 
dark and light blue, and yellow. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 156 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 6 feet 3 inches. 


A golden field is strewn with flower sprays amongst eight me- 
dallions of conventional peonies, the coloring of the ornamen- 
tation being rose-pink, a light chocolate-brown, blue, white, tur- 
quoise and a pale greenish-yellow. Borders of meander, T-fret 
and fylfot, embodying the colors of the field decoration, the 
whole bound by a band of solid brilliant blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 157 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 7 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches. 


Soft deep pile. Double medallion of floral forms and foliate 
scrolls, in two shades of blue, amidst flowers, fruits and orna- 
ments in the same colors with mouse-gray and pale yellow added, 
semé on a gray-white field with scroll corners. Fret and flower 
borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 158 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


Copper-brown field, quadrangular, carrying a single medallion 
and many sprays and butterflies executed in golden-yellow and 
white, dark and light blue and pink. Border of foliations in 
yellow, orange, white and light blue on a dark blue ground. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 159 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


A field whose tone is elusive in its brilliant shimmer, now sug- 
gesting rose, now pink, again rich salmon and yet again the hue 
of a great fire red, supports eight medallions of floral brocade and 
is strewn with sprays, among which large and small butterflies are 
seen. The colors are old gold and golden-brown, turquoise and 
deep sapphire-blue, white and others. <A border of foliations in 
the two blues and white and brown, on the ground color of the 
field, lies between a band of white dots on blue and a solid blue 
boundary strip. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 160 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 1 inch; width, 5 feet 1 inch. 
Swastika lattice in orange-brown on yellow forms the field, 
which is further decorated with five medallions in which the col- 
oring is chiefly blue and white. Two borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 161 


CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 1 inch; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


Deep blue field with corners of the archaic dragon scroll in 
orange, old gold and blue reserve, jars of flowers and household 
ornaments and a floral medallion in golden yellow, peach tones, 
orange-brown, pale pink, white and light blue. Oblique fret bor- 
der in white on blue and a border of formal designs in polychrome 
on blue. Modern. 


No. 162 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet. 
Brown “‘rice grain” lattice on a faded yellow ground, interrupted 
by five medallions formed of foliations in two shades of blue, 
white and yellow. T'wo borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 163 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


In the center a medallion of intricate angular fret, set within 
spandrels forming the corners of an open square also in the 
angular fret, which reappears at the corners of the field. Toward 
either end a scrolling archaic dragon. All in brilliant blue of 
sapphire quality on a smoky-gray ground. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 164 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet; width, 5 feet 1 inch. 


Apricot ground, supporting a brilliant decoration of bright 
golden-yellow, white, and light and dark blue, distributed in five 
medallions, formal corners and sprays. Narrow meander border, 
the meander in blue, and a wider border of formal pattern, in- 
cluding Show medallions and symbolical bats, in various colors 
on a light yellow ground. Eighteenth century. 


First Afternoon 


No. 165 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 5 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches. 
Brilliant sapphire-blue ground, thickly covered by a bold con- 
ventional floral scroll surrounding a medallion formed of angular- 
fret; angular-scroll corners; the decoration all in light yellow, 
pink and turquoise-blue. Swastika-fret border in pink and 
orange-brown tones. Eighteenth century. 


No. 166 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Golden sheen) 
Length, 8 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 
Large quadrilateral field given entirely to a lattice of mottled 
golden-yellow structure, the spaces filled with peach-pink in two 


tones—all of the color brilliant, and the silky pile yielding a 
dazzling sheen. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 167 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


The large field is of a rich leaf-brown color; its decoration is in 
light blue, dark blue, white, a pinkish-brown and golden yellow, 
and comprises five medallions, formal corners and numerous 
sprays. Eighteenth century. 


No. 168 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 8 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


Quadrilateral field of deep cerulean, with variable sheen, sup- 
porting large sprays of the conventional peony in light blue and 
white. Blue swastika-fret border on a white ground. Ch’ien- 
lung. (Repaired.) 
No. 169 
CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 
Light mustard-yellow field with lattices, enclosed within borders 
of dots, stripes and fret, with grounds of blue and red. The 


field holds five medallions of floral and geometrical designs in 
peach tones, light and dark blue, white and yellow. 


First Afternoon 


No. 170 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 9 feet; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


Light mustard-yellow ground diapered with seal-brown in a “rice- 
grain” lattice effect. The lattice is interrupted by four medal- 
lions showing an archaic dragon in a grayish ‘“‘cadet blue,” en- 
circled by peony blossoms and foliations in dark and light blue 
and white, on a pinkish-brown ground, and by a larger medallion 
of similar ground color with a ring of blossoms and foliations 
encircling a lesser medallion formed of fret and blossoms. Formal 
border embodying all the colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. Lak 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 

(Bats and the swastika) 
Length, 9 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 7 inches. _ 
A handsome swastika trellis, intricately woven, in a sapphire-blue 
of true gem-brilliancy, covers the large brown quadrilateral field, 
its lines interrupted by many emblematic bats in yellow, brown 
and light blue. Floral lattice and swastika-fret borders. Sev- 
enteenth century. 


No, 172 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 9 feet 11 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


Formal lattice in cobalt-blue and chocolate-brown on a fawn-gray 
field, the lattice-joints marked by geometrical figures in rose-pink. 
Swastika border in sapphire-blue on light yellow, between stripes 
of blue, brown, pink, yellow and rose. Eighteenth century. 


No. 173 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 12 feet 6 inches; width, 6 feet 4 inches. 


Quadrilateral field creamy-white in tone, occupied throughout 
by a highly conventionalized chrysanthemum scroll, leaves, flow- 
ers and intertwining stems, in a strong sapphire blue. Border 
of key fret in pale blue on a sapphire ground, and a second bor- 
der of scrolling foliations in the light blue, touched with white, 
on the dark blue ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


First Afternoon 


No. 174 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 10 feet; width, 8 feet 2 inches. 


This rug presents a conglomeration of design and color and sug- 
gests a mixture of influences. The wine-color field is made the 
ground for a mass of floral ornamentation, with interspersed but- 
terflies, in bright yellows, white, light and lighter blue, brown 
and pink. At the corners is the archaic dragon scroll in the two 
blue tones and white, and at the center is a medallion outlined in 
blue displaying a variety of ornament in strong colors on a white 
ground. ‘There are a number of borders of considerable variety. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 175 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 12 feet 6 inches; width, 12 feet. 


This beautiful rug, presenting such unhappy blemishes, was dam- 
aged by sea water and stained; it has also been repaired. It 
shows plainly its original fine character and could be dyed. The 
great field is a trellis of octagonal figures in dark and light blue 
lines enclosing ground of a pale green tone, each enclosure bear- 
ing a conventional flower pattern in the deep blue, and the cross- 
ings marked by yellow swastikas. Dragon medallion and cor- 
ners; three borders. K’ang-hsi. 


SECOND AFTERNOON’S SALE 
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1915 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 2.380 o’CLOCK 


Catalogue Nos. 176 to 334 inclusive 


No. 176 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 1 inch square. 


Field of. rich, deep, glowing blue, adorned in golden yellow, tur- 
quoise, apricot and golden brown with a lightly traced foliar 
medallion and detached foliations, and surrounded with a formal 
ornamentation in all the colors of the field, the yellows and golden- 
brown predominating. Eighteenth century. 


No. 177 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 3 inches square. 


Conventionalized floral forms arranged in lattice effect appear 
in turquoise, white, apricot and golden yellow on a deep blue 
ground, about a medallion of golden-yellow and apricot in con- 
trast with light and dark blue. Fret border in two shades of 
blue on an apricot ground. Late eighteenth century. 


No. 178 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 3 inches square. 


Floral lattice in bright golden-yellow, apricot and white on a 
sapphire ground, about a foliate medallion in similar colors. Fret 
border in blue on apricot. Late eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


Nor 179 
SIX ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Each, 2 feet 3 inches square. 


Centers golden yellow adorned with star-shaped and floral figures 
in a design suggesting a Gothic lattice or grill, about a foliate 
medallion of rich apricot, the various devices in white, deep blue, 
sky-blue, light and dark apricot and deep yellow. Borders of 
T-fret in two shades of blue on an apricot ground. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 180 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 2 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot 4 inches. 


Olive-yellow field with soft and brilliant sheen, adorned with a 
medallion of angular fret, ornamental vases and corner folia- 
tions, in two tones of blue, white, peach and a soft brown; border 
of star-like blossoms and palest brown on a ground of turquoise 
which verges upon the turquoise-green. Eighteenth century. 


No. 181 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MAT 
Breadth, 2 feet 2 inches; depth, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Conventional arched form, the body a geometrical design of 
various members in golden-yellow, apricot, white and two shades 
of light blue; in the border, which presents similar coloring with 
the addition of dark blue, appear Buddhistic emblems of good 
augury. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 182 
TWO ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 4 inches square. 


Rich and brilliant sapphire-blue centers, decorated in bright 
golden-yellow, apricot, white and turquoise with a medallion, and 
foliate corners which form practically a continuous pattern 
around the medallion. Deep apricot border with a fret in two 
blues. (One mat stained.) Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 1838 
TWO ANTIQUE CHINESE MATS 


Similar to the preceding (No. 182) and of same dimensions. 


No. 184 
TWO ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 4 inches square. 


Centers of deep sapphire blue, with foliar ornamentation in a 
medallion, and in corners so extended as almost to meet on each 
side, these in golden yellow, apricot, turquoise and white. Bold 
fret border in light and dark blue on an apricot ground. Eigh- 
teenth century. 


No. 185 


ANTIQUE CHINESE TEMPLE CUSHION 
Length, 2 feet 7 inches; width, 1 foot 5 inches. 


Fawn gray ground with a soft sheen, semé with lighter colored 
blossoms, enclosed within a narrow strip of seal-brown strewn 
with white dots, and a border of blue, white and brown foliations 
on a ground of golden yellow. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 186 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CHAIR MAT 
Breadth, 2 feet 3 inches; depth, 2 feet 5 inches. 


With stepped shoulders, suggesting an arch form. Lattice of 
conventionalized floral figures of golden-yellow effect, though in- 
volving various colors, on a deep blue ground, about a foliated 
medallion displaying similar colors on an apricot ground. Fret 
border in two shades of blue on an aubergine ground. Late 
eighteenth century. 


No. 187 


CHINESE CHAIR MAT 
Breadth and depth, each: 2 feet 5 inches. 


Conventional form, with a fret border in two shades of blue on a 
purplish-brown ground, enclosing a dark blue field decorated with 
a medallion and foliations in light yellow and green, white, apricot 
and turquoise. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 188 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 6 inches square. 


A soft olive-yellow with golden sheen the field is, and carries a 
decoration in apricot tones, light brown, pink, seal-brown, white, 
dark and light blue, and golden yellow, involving a floral me- 
dallion and foliar and cloud scrolls, all highly conventionalized. 
Border of reversing angular fret in light apricot on a light seal- 
brown ground, enclosed by a band of pale-golden olive-yellow. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 189 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white with apricot) 
Length, 2 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Field of grayish-blue with a light sheen, carrying a Fu medallion 
with a single animal, while at either end are two of the lons 
and a filleted ball. The decoration is worked in white and light 
blue, with accents of pale apricot. Border of asters and folia- 
tions in light blue and white on the field color. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 190 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


On a tawny field with a soft sheen are two Fu lions in a medallion 
and two others near one end, with fungus scrolls and various 
symbolic devices scattered around, in dark blue’ and turquoise- 
green, seal-brown, apricot and golden yellow. (A fragment of a 
long strip.) Eighteenth century. : 


No. 191 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet. 


On a field of yellow gold a medallion and carefully spaced sprays, 
in apricot and white, ight and dark blue. Border of foliations 
in two blues and white, with conventional blossoms in white and 
light apricot on a brownish ground. Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 192 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 
A field of light yellow is decorated in sapphire and turquoise, 
white, and tones of apricot and old-gold, with large peony sprays, 
and a medallion in the same motive. Floral border in the same 
hues. Eighteenth century. 


No. 193 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet. 
Soft grayish-white with a light sheen, in both border and field, 
and both are decorated in two shades of blue, the border with 
foliations, the field with a single Fu lion in a medallion, and folia- 
tions and angular-fret corners. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 194 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 
A field of rich sapphire is decorated with six dogs Fu, two of 
them in a medallion, excuted in turquoise-blue and white and 
tones of yellow. Border in accord. Eighteenth century. 


No. 195 
ANTIQUE CHINESE ROUND MAT 


Diameter, 3 feet 4 inches. 


A field of light fawn tone with landscape features in various 
neutral notes is the ground for the display of a yellow stag 
spotted in blue and with blue antlers, standing behind a dark blue 
doe; a pheenix in dark blue swoops low over the heads of both. 
Border of medallions and other devices in light and dark blue, dull 
white and light golden yellow on an apricot ground. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 196 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Over an apricot field with bright sheen, a floral trellis, enclosed 
within corners of angular-fret scroll and interrupted by a foli- 
ated medallion of conventional blossoms and foliations; the whole 
in various yellows, gold and white, with contrasts of light and 
dark blue. Border of the “walls of Troy” pattern in like colors. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 197 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


White field and border-ground, both decorated in pale and deep 
blue, the former with peaches, pomegranates, a medallion and 
formal corners, and the border with a chrysanthemum scroll. 
Ch’ien-lung. 

No. 198 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Apricot ground for field and border, the decoration foliations, 
sprays, butterflies and a medallion, in two shades of blue, white, 
and a light yellowish-brown. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 199 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. 
Field of glowing sapphire, deep and pure, adorned in white and 
in light turquoise with a medallion embracing swastika symbols, 


and with conventional sprays and angular-fret corners; border 
of foliations and blossoms. Eighteenth century. 


No. 200 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


The ground of field and border is a very pale, dull yellow, carry- 
ing, in the border, a swastika-fret in dark blue, and in the field 
a medallion, foliations, and angular-fret corners in light and dark 
blue with accents of white. Eighteenth century. 


No. 201 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Deep golden yellow field ornamented with floral patterns and 
foliations in apricot, brown, white and two shades of blue. Blue 
and white border on a brown ground. Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 202 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 11 inches; width, 2 inches. 
Decoration in two shades of blue which have a greenish aspect, on 
a ground of smoky gray, the decoration of the field involving a 
medallion, foliations and butterflies, that of the border foliations 
and flowers. Ch’ien-lung. 
No. 2038 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 
A field of rich sapphire with subdued sheen is decorated with a 
medallion, flower sprays, pomegranates and conventional butter- 
flies in light turquoise-blue and white, and touches of yellow in 
the blossom centers and the flies’ wings. Floral border in accord. 
Kighteenth century. 
No. 204 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 

Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 
Field of rich, tawny brown, with a Fu-lion in a medallion at 
the center, worked in dark blue and turquoise-green, and at either 
end two more of the lions, one of each pair in the same colors 
and the other in golden-yellow touched with blue and white. Bor- 
der of foliar scroll in brown and white and light blue on a dark 
blue ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 205 
ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Fawn ground with a bright sheen extends to field and border 
alike, and the decoration of both is in a brilliant gem-like blue, 
the form foliar throughout. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 206 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet. 


A field of apricot hue is decorated in golden yellow, dark and 
light blue and white with a medallion and corners of the conven- 
tionalized archaic dragon scroll, and various peony sprays. The 
border embodies foliations, blossoms and Show medallions on a 
light yellow and golden ground. Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


Xa SPB Se 


No. 207 


CHINESE RUG 
(Yellow and blue) 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Short, close pile. Formal floral patterns in two shades of blue, — 
white and reddish-brown, overspread a tawny-yellow field centered 
by a complex geometrical medallion comprehending the ancient 
swastika symbol. The symbol recurs in the corners amidst a fret 
formed of elements of the archaic dragon-scroll. Beyond a nar- 
row fret border of white on blue, a broader border of richly 
colored floral ornamentation. Overcast sides, fringe ends. 


No. 208 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 3 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Old-rose field adorned with sprays in old-gold, ight and dark blue, 
and white, and a geometrical medallion and angular-fret corners 
in similar color. The same colors appear in a lattice border with 
the addition of a light fawn-gray. Eighteenth century. 


No. 209 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Apricot field adorned with foliar corners and medallion, and 
highly conventional sprays, in dark and light blue, white and 
pale yellow. Border of conch shells in white and apricot on dark 
blue, and a meander border of various color. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 210 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


The white field has turned a soft gray and has a light sheen. 
The decoration is a medallion, formal corners, and foliations 
with conventional blossoms, in light and dark blue. Fret border 
in the two blues on white ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 211 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Dark blue ground in field and border, decorated in dull gold 
and soft brown with a most unusual use of the Fu-lion. In the 
field are four of the lions, two above and two below a fierce kilin, 
while the border is made up of a procession of them numbering 
twenty-two. Eighteenth century. 


No. 212 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Field of light green of apple hue with a soft luster, the same 
color being continued in the border. The decoration of the field 
is in the form of vases and medallions, the medallions both com- 
plete and in segments, and the decoration of the border is of folia- 
tions and the peony pattern; all in apricot, yellow, old gold and 
sapphire-blue. Eighteenth century. 


No. 2138 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet. 


This rug, once a blue and white, shows now a ground of greenish- 
gray hue, from edge to edge, with a decoration of vases of flowers 
surrounding a medallion, angular-fret corners, and a lightly 
drawn formal border, all in a rich blue. K’ang-hsi. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 214 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Cocoon-form; dark grayish-blue, with medallions, sprays and but- 
terflies in magenta and orange, blue and white, and borders of 
fret and foliations in the several colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 215 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Dark purplish-blue field with two medallions of angular-fret and 
rosettes in light and dark blue and white; ridge band of bright 
golden yellow. Blue lattice border sprinkled with floral medal- 
lions and the Show character. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 216 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Quadrilateral field, with a gnarled tree growing on a hillside at 
either end; under each tree is a saddle horse tethered to the 
trunk. The decoration is in sapphire and turquoise blue, with 
incidental employment of a yellowish apricot, on a soft grayish- 
white. Border of the fylfot fret in dark blue on the same white. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 217 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


The doe-skin gray field is ornamented with a medallion in apricot 
and old gold, formed in the ancient design of the conventionalized 
archaic dragon scroll, in the center of which appear foliations 
in two shades of blue; additional ornament is found in the form 
of sprays and corners worked in the two blues with a modicum 
of ground reserve. Border of swastika-fret in sapphire on a 
lustrous light gray ground. Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 218 
ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Imperial yellow) 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 
Brillant imperial yellow field, adorned with a floral medallion and 
foliations in dark sapphire and light turquoise, white, and delicate 
tones of apricot. Around it is a swastika-fret border, largely in 


bright yellow, pinkish and apricot tones and white, with contrasts 


of dark and light blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 219 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet. 


Light tan ground in field and border, decorated, the former with 
foliations and a composite medallion in two shades of blue, the 
latter with a fylfot fret in dark blue. This rug once was blue 
and white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 220 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


With the exception of a ridge band of golden yellow, the whole 
field is a “rice grain” lattice in magenta and orange, golden yel- 
low and white. ‘Walls of Troy” border in these several colors, 


with light and dark blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 221 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Within a border of midnight-blue with detached figures in light 
color, a gray-white field carrying eight endless-knot emblems in 


the deep blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 222 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Close lattice in dark blue, the interstices white, surrounded by a 
border of endless-knots in apricot on a gray white. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 223 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Very dark blue in field and border, which are separated by a 
stripe of purple and white. The decoration of both is the endless- 
knot in a very pale yellow which here has the effect of a gray 
white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 224 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


White of field and border, the decoration of both being the end- 
less-knot emblem many times repeated, in dark blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 225 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


On a grayish-white ground a swastika lattice in pearl-gray, in- 
terrupted by two medallions in light yellow and apricot, dark blue 
and magenta, and white reserve. Border of light floral medallions 
on deep blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 226 


CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Oblong field taken up wholly with a mixed lattice, with prevail- 
ing tone of mingled emerald-green and olive-yellow, brought out 
by orange contrasts. Borders of fret and meander in red, green, 
white and blue, and a broader border of composite ornament in 
white and two blues on a ground of neutral yellowish-brown tone. 


No. 227 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Light apricot field with a scarcely perceptible trellis and a bright 
sheen, sprinkled with small medallions of various forms, including 
that of the symbolical bat, in light golden yellow, two tones of 
blue, and white. Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 228 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 
White field with small brocade medallions, and others bearing the 


Show character, in various colors. Two borders, the principal 
one being white endless-knots on deep, dark blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 229 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Rectangular field of gray white, decorated in pale blue of two 
tones with a medallion and foliations. Two fret borders, one in 
white on blue and one in blue on white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 2380 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Field of dark cerulean, ornamented in apricot and white and a 
light gray-blue, with floral patterns and angular adjuncts in a 
medallion and corners. Block border of various designs and light 


colors, bound by a band of solid blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


A field of soft and lustrous brown is decorated in gold, dark and 
light blue and white with a floral medallion and sprays, vases and 
jars of plants. Swastika-fret border on which detached blossoms 
are implanted. Eighteenth century. 


No. 232 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white and yellow) 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Nine Fu-lions, grouped four above and four below a larger one 
which extends across the field, are executed in light and dark blue 
on a grayish-white, with details of brown. Along the sides are 
floral borders in the two blues on white, and the ends are draw- 
ings of the waves-and-rocks motive in sundry browns and yel- 
lows, with touches of blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 238 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 

Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet. 
Pale chocolate field with a light sheen; the ornamentation peony 
sprays, foliar corners and a medallion in various yellows, white, 
brown and pale and deep blue. Border of bright yellows with 
the dark blue in contrast. Eighteenth century. 


No. 284 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 
In the shape of the silk-worm’s cocoon. The field entirely in 
the “tiger stripe” motive in tawny yellow and dark brown, an 
odd feature being that in three places the tawny color is replaced 
by a dark brownish red. Imbricated border in two blues and 
white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 235 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 
Or chair cover. Irregular form, consisting of a decorated square 
with a ground of imperial yellow supporting two dragons in dark 
and light blue, white and apricot, and extensions above and 
below of the rich imperial yellow unadorned. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 236 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Dark yellow field enclosed within a border of the swastika fret in 
sapphire blue on the same yellow ground, the field itself deco- 
rated in sapphire and turquoise blue, white, light yellow and 
apricot, with elaborate foliations, an angular-scroll medallion 
and fret corners. Eighteenth century. 


No. 237 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Field of cerulean swastika lattice on black (really blue but the 
effect is black), with two medallions in magenta, purplish-pink, 
blue, yellow, brown, orange and white. Variegated border in lat- 
tice form. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 288 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 
Rich brown field with a bright sheen, decorated with conventional 
flower-sprays and butterflies, a medallion and corner foliations, in 
dark blue, pale turquoise and dull white. Border of swastika- 
fret in the dark blue on the brown ground color. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 239 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 
Field of light pumpkin-yellow, decorated with peony sprays, foli- 
ations and a medallion in light golden yellow, apricot, dark and 
light blue, white and a pinkish-brown. Border with foliations and 
symbols in the same colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 240 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT ” 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 
Long mat formed of two square mats sewn together. Golden- 
yellow ground, the color more pronounced in the wide border, 
where the decoration is in floral forms; central square field, with 
guard-stripes in two shades of blue, and a geometrical lattice 


with gray diamond-shaped open spaces. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 241 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 
Field of feuille morte with liquid sheen, its ornamentation a me- 
dallion and expansive foliations in dark and light blue and white. 
Borders of fret scroll in dark blue on ground of the field color. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 242 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


A white field sustains two medallions and various butterflies and 
flower sprays, in pink, yellow, brown, green, and two shades of 
blue, and a foliated spinal-ridge band of pale and brilliant apple- 
green. Deep blue border with detached sprays of the Buddha’s- 
hand fruit in light color. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 2438 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Deep plum-color field centered with golden-yellow, and a border 
of blocks of the golden-yellow on a rose ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 244 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Lattice field in two shades of blue, sprinkled with conventional 
flower patterns in peach tones.. In the border the light peach and 
apricot tones predominate, with dark and light blue in foliate 
devices in contrast. Eighteenth century. 


No. 245 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Field of floral lattice with foliate corners and medallion, in yellow, 
browns, two blues and white, with a swastika-fret border in the 
same colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 246 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Red) 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Dark ruby ground with a soft glow, its adornment beautifully 
drawn conventionalizations of the peony motive in rich black— 
(doubtless a very deep blue but in effect it is a black of fine 
quality). There are corners, expansive scrolls and a single me- 
dallion, all in this graceful motive. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 247 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


A field of rich and glowing cerulean carries medallions and flower 
sprays in soft pink and rose, pale turquoise, a gray pearly-white, 
and light golden-yellow. Around it is a wide border of golden 
tones touched with rose and accented in deep blue. The shape 
of the cloth is that of the silk-worm’s cocoon. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 248 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Field of greenish bronze tone, smooth and lustrous, decorated in 
sapphire and turquoise, gray-white and apricot, with boxes and 
vases of favorite plants and trees, and a medallion of blossoms 
and foliations. The border of swastika lattice is interrupted by 
various symbols and other devices. Eighteenth century. 


No. 249 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Sapphire field with a soft glow, decorated in white, light blue, 
pale yellow and deep apricot with sprays and a Fu medallion, 
and a conventional border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 250 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 


(Blue and white, with red) 
Length, 4 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Floral sprays in graceful line, conventional butterflies and an 
angular-fret medallion, with a swastika-fret border, all in blue 
on a soft white ground, the field ornamentation being lightly 
touched with dark purplish-red. Eighteenth century. 


No. 251 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


Sapphire-blue field adorned with a medallion, butterflies, flow- 
ers, and fret corners, in light blue and yellow, apricot and white. 
Border in apricot, golden-yellow, two blues and white, the apricot 
and yellow predominating. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 252 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 


(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


The white field has taken a yellowish tone and is decorated in two 
shades of blue with a medallion of flowers and elaborately branch- 
ing foliations. Border of conventional blossoms and foliations 
in scroll form in the two blues and white. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 253 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 
Within a border of white dots on a brilliant blue, and several 
narrow guard stripes, a lattice of cadet-gray edged in deep blue 
lines on a ground of dull gold. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 254 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 7 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 
Cobalt-blue field of ‘“‘powder-blue” quality and a fair sheen, with 
a foliated light tawny-yellow ridge-band outlined in light purple 
and white, and formal corner designs lightly traced in white. 
Border of grayish creamy-white with small medallions singly and 
in groups, some exhibiting the Show character. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 255 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SHORT STRIP 

Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 
Formed of three golden-yellow squares with pinkish-apricot bor- 
ders, the borders ornamented with cloud scrolls and the fields with 
medallion and formal corners in light and dark blue, golden- 
brown, apricot and white. Eighteenth century. 


No. 256 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 5 feet; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 
Four Fu lions are at the corners and two guard the brocaded 
ball in a medallion, all, with various foliations, executed in light 
and dark blue on white. Foliar border in light blue and white 
on dark blue ground. Eighteenth century. 


No. 257 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 5 feet; width, 2 feet 9 inches. 


An oblong field in creamy café-au-lait supports an ornamentation 
comprising a peony medallion, sprays and various decorative ob- 
jects, in sapphire and gray-blue, pale and deep apricot and 
golden yellow. Formal border with similar colors, the ground 
deep apricot. Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 258 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 5 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


A mat of twenty-one Fu lions, all in light blue, white and apricot 
on a sapphire ground. In the field are nine of them, all facing 
the same end of the rug with a single exception. In the field also 
appear the endless-knot and other Buddhistic emblems. In the 
border the lions are in pairs, and face each other with the cov- 
eted ball between them. Eighteenth century. 


No. 259 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


The nine Fu lions are pictured in various attitudes and two tones 
of blue on a gray-white field. The white ground is continued 
in the border where it supports scrolls of foliations. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 260 


ANTIQUE MAT 
(Red and brown) 
Length, 5 feet; width, 2 feet 10 inches. 


A red ground between complex end bands is hatched with short 
vertical lines of dark seal-brown, arranged in successive lateral 
bands, waving or straight. At either side of an angular-scroll 
central medallion the hatchings are horizontal and arranged in 
concentric bands. This rug has been very largely restored. 


No. 261 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 5 feet; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Tiger-skin yellow with a brilliant sheen, enclosed by a band of 
seal-brown; the field defined by a narrow stripe of brilliant sap- 
phire-blue. The whole bright and soft yellow expanse reveals a 
subtile lattice with interstitial scrolls in sympathetic tones, in 
strong contrast to which appear two medallions and technical 
corners of angular-fret in sapphire and pale turquoise-blue. 
Fighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 262 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 5 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. 


On a rich creamy white field nine Fu lions, five of them in a me- 
dallion, and scrolling foliations, in dark and light blue. Border 
of the peony pattern amid foliations in light blue and white on a 
dark blue ground. 


No. 263 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 11 inches. 


Glowing sapphire field with filleted ornamental devices and em- 
blems in the corners, two of the Fu lions and a large filleted ball 
at either end, and in the center a medallion with the crane flying 
above a spotted stag; in light turquoise, white, and pale yellow- 
ish-brown. Border of chrysanthemum scroll in light blue and 
white on a sapphire ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 264 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 11 inches. 


On an oblong field of pearl-gray aspect a mass of conventional 
foliations in three shades of blue, with pale yellow and orange- 
pink. In the center a medallion of foliations in the lighter colors, 
crossed by two bars of the archaic dragon scroll. Swastika bor- 
der interrupted by flower medallions and symbols. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 265 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RECESS RUG 


Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches; greatest width or lintel span, 
3 feet 8 inches. 


In the form of a conventional long mat with a “lintel” of key- 
stone shape superposed on one end, the whole woven as one fabric 
and the lintel projecting at the sides. The ornamentation is a 
conventional lattice in bright colors, yellow and brown predom- 
inating, with a dark blue base. Fret border. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 266 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 


Salmon field, quadrangular in shape, entirely occupied by an 
enlacement of conventional floral scrolls and foliations in sap- 
phire-blue, turquoise-blue and white. Fret border in the two 
blues on the salmon ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 267 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. 


A twany field with a furtive sheen is decorated in light turquoise- 
blue, a rosy pink, white, dark blue and pale golden yellow, with 
branches of flowers, trees and fruit, and a peony medallion. The 
medallion is surrounded by butterflies, and a butterfly is found 
within it, hovering over a large blossom. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 268 


CHINESE RUG 
(Gold and blue) 
Length, 5 feet 5 inches; width, 3 feet 4 inches. 


Golden-yellow field, with flower sprays and fruits and flying bats 
about an archaic dragon-scroll medallion, in deep sapphire-blue, 
pale blue, orange, brown and white. Angular-scroll corners with 
palmate forms. Swastika-fret border interrupted by bat sym- 
bols. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 269 


SAMARKAND SILK RUG 
Length, 5 feet 10 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 


Ground of deep, dull red, holding nine medallions outlined in 
seal-brown and containing conventional floral and geometric de- 
signs in various low colors. Side borders of the swastika and 
characteristic conventional forms. Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 270 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches. 


A brilliant rose, with pinkish inclinations, and so vivid as to 
suggest a flame hue, is carried through the whole ground of the 
carpet, field and border, and both are decorated in sapphire, 
turquoise and white, the border with foliations and blossoms, 
the field with a peony medallion, peony corners, sprays of other 
flowers and of fruit, and here and there conventional butterflies. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 271 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches. 


Deep close pile. On a gray field, four angular-scroll medallions 
at the corners, a larger floral medallion in the center, and inter- 
mediate decorations of fruits, sprays, and insects of the air; the 
colors, orange and brown and pale yellow, with two shades of 
blue. Series of borders including a swastika-fret in yellow and 
white and a meander in the several colors of the field. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 272 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 6 feet; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


On a grayish-white field with angular fret corners, a medallion 
and groups of foliations in two shades of blue. Border of the 
fylfot fret in blue on white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 278 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG MAT 
Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Brilliant sapphire field with a fine sheen, adorned with branches 
of the plum and chrysanthemum and other flowers, in light golden 
yellow, turquoise, white and apricot. ‘The same colors appear 
in a border of the peony pattern outside a fret border of white 
on blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 274 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 9 inches. 


Apricot field with flower sprays and butterflies, a medallion and 
formal corners, in golden yellow and orange, white, turquoise and 


dark blue. Double border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 275 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG MAT 
Length, 6 feet; width, 2 feet 10 inches. 


Dark blue ground throughout, the field decorated with numerous 
sprays and articles of household use and adornment, and the 
borders with foliations, butterflies and blossoms, all in light blue 
and white. Eighteenth century. 


No. 276 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 


Butterflies and blossoms, with sprigs of citron and various con- 
ventional sprays, are distributed in light and dark blue and 
occasional touches of mouse-color between five brocade medal- 
lions on a field of soft white. Borders of white dots on blue, and 
foliations in the two blues on white. Ch’ien-lung. 


ING Le 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 7 inches. 


Oblong field of deerskin-brown, with sheen, decorated in light 
and dark blue, white and yellow, with sprays of the peony, plum 
and chrysanthemum, corners of foliations and a foliate medallion. 
Floral and foliate border in the field-colors on golden-yellow. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 278 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Red and yellow) 
Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 7 inches. 


Rectangular field of soft apple-red, ornamented with flower 
sprays and butterflies in light golden-yellow, dark and light 
blue, apricot and white. Golden-yellow ground for the border, 
on which foliations and conventional blossoms are worked in 
the two blues, white, and deep rich apricot. Ejighteenth century. 


No. 279 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 


A trellis evolved about the swastika is traced in blue over a tawny- 
yellow ground, covering the rectangular field. It is interrupted 
by numerous symbolic bats, in turquoise-blue or reserve. Around 
it is a lattice border of split octagons that is succeeded by a 
border of swastika-fret, which differs from the usual form of 
this border in that the outer line on each side is continuous, 
closing in the fylfot emblem as a unit, instead of allowing the 
emblem’s running lines to form the whole border. Ming. 


No. 280 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 3 feet 7 inches. 


Soft, deep, loose pile. Orange field of brilliant sheen; in the 
center two lions in a medallion, one with a paw on the traditional 
ball, in cerulean, deep indigo, orange, pale gold, and white. 
Toward either end of the field conventional peony-scroll units 
in two blues and pale gold, apricot and white. Conventional 
foliate corners and border in similar colors. Late Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 281 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Pink and blue) 
Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 


A bold grill of four-sided figures effected with the C-scroll, in 
dark blue outlined with light blue, lies over a pink field, the in- 
terstices showing the peach of longevity and the bat emblem of 
happiness repeated in alternate lines. Borders of key and swas- 
tika-fret and several stripes. Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 282 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 

Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 
Enclosed within guard stripes of turquoise and deep sapphire is a 
pale rose-pink field, cut into a grill by a repeat design of scrolled 
figures in a light whitish yellow. Central medallion and corners 
of angular scroll in white on a blue ground. Bright pink and 
sapphire-blue borders of key and swastika-fret, and sundry stripe 
borders, with an exterior band of brown. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 283 
ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet; width, 4 feet 1 inch. 


Apricot field with a brilliant sheen, ornamented with bold peony 
sprays and a Fu medallion in pale gold, pink, white, golden 
brown and two varieties of blue; also heavy foliations in the cor- 
ners; border in harmony, with a light ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 284 
ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 1 inch; width, 4 feet 1 inch. 


Golden yellow ground, adorned with huge peony sprays in dark 
and light blue, apricot and white. In the border appear all the 
colors and the same motive. Eighteenth century. 


No. 285 


CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 1 inch; width, 4 feet 1 inch. 
A golden-brown lattice of fine lines encloses blue checkered figures 
in the spaces and covers the field, interrupted by five escalloped 
medallions ornamented with pale yellow, white, light blue and 
dark sapphire foliations. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 286 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches. 


Latticed field in golden-brown and orange on a mustard-yellow 
ground, with five floral medallions in peach color and yellow, 
white and two tones of blue. Borders of white dots on blue and 
foliations on a peach-tone ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 287 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches. 


Dark yellow field with slightly golden sheen; at each corner two 
archaic dragons worked into an angular scroll; in the field a cen- 
tral foliar medallion, four lesser brocaded medallions and various 
ornaments. All the decoration in dark and light blue, white, 
golden-yellow and pinkish-brown. Borders of fret and folia- 
tions. Eighteenth century. 


No. 288 


PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE RUGS 
(Floral) 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 1 inch. 


Soft close pile. Brilliant floral display in gay colors on a neutral 
brown ground. In the center a medallion with the peony and 
magnolia growing from rocks, and birds perched in the branches. 
Around it jars and vases of plants and flowers. In the corners, 
peonies worked with the archaic dragon scroll. Meander and 
foliate borders in the same bright colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 289 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 


Short close pile. The traditional nine Fu lions are found in a 
circular medallion in two shades of blue, pale yellow and orange- 
brown, within a silvery-gray parallelogram whose ground is 
mainly occupied by motives from the ‘“‘Hundred Antiques.” This 
is enclosed within a pale-yellow border exhibiting a fret in self- 
color, which is succeeded by a broader border displaying the 
archaic dragon-scroll amidst foliations in the colors of the field. 
HKighteenth century. | 


No. 290 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Yellow and blue) 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet 4 inches. 


Deep indigo-blue field made brilliant by bright golden-yellow and 
a flaming pink, sundry other yellows, and browns, and light blue 
and white, used in a decoration of foliar medallions, flower sprays, 
and conventional butterflies represented on the wing. Fret bor- 
der in two shades of blue on a yellow-brown ground. Eighteenth 
century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 291 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet 4 inches. 


Quadrangular peach-colored ground, with corners of floral scroll 
in white, a pinkish-white and bright canary-yellow, near which 
are playful Fu lions in gray-blue, dark blue, and white. Flower 
sprays embodying the several colors are scattered around a floral 
medallion worked in the same hues. Eighteenth century. 


No. 292 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


On a red ground are four medallions with the archaic dragon- 
head scroll in two tones of blue placed amongst foliations in yel- 
low, blue and white, and a larger medallion containing five of the 
Fu lions executed in light and dark blue, white and golden yellow. 
Elsewhere are sprays in the various colors. The same colors on 
the same ground appear in the border between two stripes of 
blue. Eighteenth century. 


No. 293 


CHINESE .RUG 
Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches. 


A field of mingled coloring—yellowish tones, more or less per- 
vaded by green—has as its most distinct ornamentation ten small 
medallions of rosette type, outlined in white and their figures 
woven in yellow and two shades of brown. ‘The border of soft 
light brown is traversed by an interrupted swastika fret. 


No. 294 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches. 


The field is a mass of bold peony scroll in a soft white on a con- 
fused ground into which it seems to melt, while in strong contrast 
are the corners of key-fret and a central medallion formed of two 
archaic dragons, all in a pronounced deep blue. Swastika border. 
Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 295 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Fawn and blue) 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


The field of rich fawn is strewn with flower sprays, butterflies, 
and clusters of fruit, between a large center medallion and four 
smaller ones near the corners, the whole in two tones of blue, 
yellow, orange and white. Border of floral patterns and butter- 
flies in the two blues and white on a pink ground, and a border 
of floral lattice in the several colors. Eighteenth century. 


No. 296 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


Multitudinous cloud forms of the conventional pattern, mingled 
with those variations which more closely follow the sacred-fungus 
scroll, are laid in regular strata in a field of glowing sapphire- 
blue, the clouds a soft tan or ight tawny tone and the fungus- 
scroll modifications varied with brown. The field is rectangular 
and about it is a wide plain border of the soft tan ground-color. 
Ming. 


No. 297 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches. 


On a rose field with brilliant sheen, floral medallions and sprays, 
and corner foliations, in dark blue and turquoise, white and old 
gold. Border of foliations and conventional blossoms in the same 
colors on the same ground, and a boundary band of solid blue. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 298 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 4 feet 4 inches. 


Yellowish-brown quadrangular field bearing the ‘Hundred 
Antiques” in various blues, pinks, yellows and browns; light bor- 
der of butterflies and foliations, and dark border of the swastika- 
fret in deep blue on a brown ground, with floral interruptions. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Floral) 
Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 4 feet 8 inches. 


An open floral lattice spreads over a confused ground inclining 
toward the copper-reds. Each crossing is covered by a large blos- 
som-form—these in blues, yellows, browns and white. A large 
floral medallion in the same colors encloses a smaller one in which 
finches are perching in flowering trees. In the corners, stepped 
quadrants of key and swastika fret in orange, cobalt and dark 
sapphire. Fringe ends and overcast sides. Eighteenth century. 


No. 800 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 4 feet 9 inches. 


“Grains of rice” lattice in seal-brown and a golden yellow, about 
a single composite medallion in peach-pink, blue and white and 
the yellow ground reserve. Corners of angular scroll and fret 
in two tones of pink and a brilliant turquoise-blue. Ribbon-fret 
border in similar colors between sapphire stripes. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 801 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(White and red) 
Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet 8 inches. 


Oblong field of pearly-white, within a red border sustaining a 
bold foliar-scroll decoration in bright yellow, turquoise, sapphire 
and white. The field decorated, around a foliate and angular- 
scroll medallion, with butterflies, the pomegranate and Buddha’s- 
hand citron, the peony, prunus and other floral forms in peach 
tones, white, blue and light golden-yellow. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 802 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 4 feet 8 inches. 


Copper-brown field with a mild sheen, thickly sprinkled with de- 
tached peony sprays in light and dark blue and white, among 
which butterflies in similar coloring with the addition of light 
golden yellow are seen, the whole centering on a floral medallion 
employing the same colors. Leaf-scroll and blossom border in 
accord. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 803 


CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 4 feet 8 inches. 


Short, soft pile; close texture; brilliant sheen. Broad quadri- 
lateral field of copper-brown with brilliant surface, supporting 
a bold and plentiful decoration of conventional floral forms and 
foliations in seal-brown, golden-yellow and white. Conventional 
border, and about the exterior a band of brilliant sapphire-blue. 


No. 804 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches. 


Manchurian. Square field greenish-white in tone and of silvery 
surface, carrying a decoration of bats among clouds around a 
curiously-formed angular-scroll medallion. Narrow border of 
scrolling foliations in slender line, and an outer border of key 
fret in white on blue ground. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 805 


CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet; width, 3 feet. 


A light mustard-yellow field discloses a faintly visible chain- 
lattice in lighter lines, over which a bold pattern of small orange 
squares with white centers is laid in a larger lattice effect. 
Foliate corners and a small foliar medallion in the center are 
decorated in light and dark blue, white and pale yellow, on 
orange-brown. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 806 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 1 inch. 


Over a field of rich and beautiful blue of sapphire quality a fine 
lattice is traced in light turquoise, and the whole strewn with 
rosettes and conventional floral medallions of small diameter in 
yellow, brown, apricot, white, pink and blue. Border of sapphire- 
blue swastika fret on a brown ground. K’ang-hsi. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 307 


RAW SILK RUG 
Length, 7 feet; width, 4 feet 5 inches. 


Quadrilateral gray field, covered with an involved leaf-scroll in 
green, intercepted by many conventional blossoms in strong 
colors. Narrow serrate border, and a broad border of leaf- 
scrolls and expansive floral forms in dull green and bright red on 
an écru ground. Kuang-hsu. 


No. 808 


ANTIQUE CHINESE BROAD RUG 
Breadth, 7 feet; depth, 4 feet 8 inches. 


Its field is a field of flame in hue and it is laden with large peony 
blossoms and leaves, connected by scrolling stems, among which 
are numerous conventional butterflies, all in two shades of blue 
and white. Meander border followed by a border of fret over- 
lain with detached blossoms. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 809 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet; width, 5 feet. 


Field of light gold with a decoration of floral elements in sprays, 
jardiniéres, foliar scrolls and medallions—the latter revealing 
the swastika symbol—in gray-blue and dark blue, seal-brown, 
a light pinkish-brown and white. Chevron border followed by 
a swastika fret in several colors. Eighteenth century. 


No. 810 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet; width, 5 feet 1 inch. 


Quadrangular field of crushed strawberry through which runs a 
swastika lattice defined in peach-color, interrupted by five foliated 
medallions displaying floral motives in dark and light blue, white, 
orange and pink on a pale golden ground. Fret border of blue 
on pale gold and a border of conventionalized flowers interrupted 
by Show medallions in various colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 811 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 2 inches; width, 5 feet 2 inches. 


A field of tan or tawny note but brilliant and lustrous supports 
a decoration of five medallions, conventional butterflies and flower 
sprays in dark and light blue, white and old gold, and is sur- 
rounded by two borders. Eighteenth century. 


No. 812 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


Light tan field with a soft sheen, ornamented in blue and white 
and pale golden yellow with gracefully worked medallions, de- 
tached sprays, and butterflies on the wing. Border in two shades 
of blue and white, in an early scrolling design, on a light golden 
yellow ground. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 8138 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


Red-brown field, with a light sheen, nearly square and generously 
ornamented with conventionalizations of the peony, and formal 
stems of conventional leaves, in turquoise, sapphire and white, 
with brilliant golden-yellows. Border of blue and white foliations 
on a light brown ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 314 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 7 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


Deep soft pile. Gray-white field, with angular scroll-fret cor- 
ners, each centering on a swastika symbol, in two shades of blue. 
Central floral medallion with tree peony, and about the field 
stems of the pomegranate, Buddha’s-hand citron and flowers, 
these with occasional details in a light café-au-lait. Floral scroll 
border. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 315 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet; width, 5 feet 2 inches. 


“Grains-of-rice” lattice in golden-brown on a light yellow field 
of thick pile. Near the corners, foliate medallions; and placed 
equidistant about the field, medallions of foliated outline enclos- 
ing squares of the archaic dragon-scroll; all in white, brown, two 
tones of blue, and the bright ground-yellow. In the border, bat 
emblems and Shou medallions amongst foliations. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 316 


ANTIQUE CHINESE BROAD RUG 
Breadth, 8 feet 3 inches; depth, 4 feet 10 inches. 


Broad quadrilateral field, entirely given over to a grill of geo- 
metrical figures formed of C-scrolls, in light and dark blue. On 
the enclosed ground of tawny-brown appear alternately sym- 
bolical bats and a formal ornamental device in light golden- 
yellow, brown, white and clair-de-lune, and in the interstices are 
rosettes. Eighteenth century. 


No. 317 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Peonies ) 
Length, 8 feet; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


Quadrangular field of tawny-yellow verging upon golden-brown, 
thickly sprinkled with bold, expansive peony blossoms on branch- 
ing and leaf-filled stems, in golden-yellow and brown, soft-white, 
pale, hazy sky-blue and a dark, intense blue of ultra-sapphire 
depths. Border a lattice of geometric forms and floral conven- 
tions. Eighteenth century. 


No. 318 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Fawn, blue and gold) 
Length, 8 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


All over the rectangular fawn field with its light sheen, a formal 
floral pattern of interwoven blossoms and scrolling leaves and 
stems, in dark blue and light blue, the yellow of old-gold and 
golden-brown, and tones of pink and orange. Swastika border in 
blue on fawn. Eighteenth century. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 319 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Peach tones and blue) 
Length, 8 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


Soft pile. Over the peach-toned field a swastika-lattice of lighter 
note, on which are laid clusters of the “fruits of the abundances” 
in two shades of blue, seal-brown, pink, white and golden-yellow, 
with emblematic flying bats and a composite medallion. Bright 
border of foliations on a yellow ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 320 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


A field of geometrical lattice embracing various conventionalized 
floral designs as ornament, and interrupted by eight medallions, 
is executed in peach tones and golden yellow, light and dark 
blue, white and golden brown. Borders of dots and oblique and 
swastika fret, with various guard stripes. Eighteenth century. 


No. 821 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 4 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


Light golden yellow field exhibiting a rice grain lattice delicately 
effected. On it eight foliated medallions of floral decoration in 
light and dark blue and golden yellow on a pinkish-brown ground. 
Border in harmony, employing the same colors and surrounded by 
a strip of solid deep blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 822 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG RUG 
(Gray and blue) 
Length, 9 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 2 inches. 


Long, narrow rectangular field of soft gray or silvery fawn, 
adorned with blossoming peony sprays and conventional butter- 
flies in dark blue, white and light blue. Fret border in the two 
blues between white stripes, and a border of foliations in the 
three colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 8238 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


A field of light reddish-brown is decorated in golden yellow, dark 
and light blue, white and dark brown, with branches of the peony 
with large flowers. Border of conventional design in blue and 
white on golden yellow. Eighteenth century. 


No. 824 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


Eight floral medallions in dark and light blue, white and golden 
yellow are disposed about a long peach field, the intervening 
spaces strewn with various sprays and butterflies, exhibiting the 
same colors with a freer use of the light golden tone. Conven- 
tional border. Eighteenth century. 


No. 825 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and yellow) 
Length, 9 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches. 


Intense blue field centered by a phoenix medallion, with four 
phenixes in the corners, the ground covered by an elaborate 
peony scroll, all the decoration in light yellow, white and browns. 
In the border the archaic-dragon angular-scroll appears in blue 
and white, amongst other conventional forms, on a yellowish- 
brown ground. Ming. 


No. 326 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 9 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


Oblong field in tones of brown and tawny yellow, decorated with 
a floral medallion and numerous ornaments and branches, in light 
and dark blue, white, light yellow and orange; formal corners. 
Ribbon border worked into a swastika-fret, in brown and yellow 
on dark blue; and a second border of alternating foliations in the 
several colors of the field. Ch’ien-lung. (Repaired.) 


Second Afternoon 


No. 327 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 9 feet; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


The expansive pearly white field is brilliant with Buddhistic sym- 
bols, bronzes in the form of ancient sacrificial vessels, screens, 
garden plants, and sprays, a floral medallion and archaic dragon- 
scroll corners, all in deep, intense blue and turquoise-blue, with 
white reserve. Two borders, of fret and foliations, and an ex- 
terior strip of solid blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 328 


ANTIQUE CHINESE BROAD RUG 
Breadth, 10 feet; depth, 5 feet 10 inches. 


The broad oblong field is a light reddish brown of metallic tone, 
with a luxuriant decoration in cobalt blue, white and a deep dark 
blue. This includes sprays of the peony and winter-blooming 
wild plum tree, clusters of pomegranates and sprigs of the 
Buddha’s-hand citron, incense burners and ancient sacrificial ves- 
sels, pi-twngs with brushes, bunches of aquatic plants and various 
other designs. Diaper border in two blues on a white ground and 
a broader border of light blue and white foliations on a dark blue 
ground. Top and bottom fringed. Eighteenth century. 


No. 829 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 10 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 10 inches. 


Deep close pile and substantial texture. The large field reflects 
a warm salmon hue with a soft and brilliant glister. Over the 
field are scattered flower-sprays and butterflies in light canary- 
yellow, sapphire and fair turquoise-blue, and white, a dark golden- 
brown and peach-red. A brilliant foliate medallion in the same 
colors centers the field, the corners are formed of other folia- 
tions, and a bright floral border surrounds the whole. Ch’ien- 
lung. 


Second Afternoon 


No. 330 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Yellow, rose and blue) 
Length, 10 feet 5 inches; width, 7 feet 1 inch. 


Short, close, soft pile; firm texture. An intricate arrangement 
of the ancient conventional dragon-scroll in a large medallion, 
in dark blue and turquoise, holds the center of an expansive field 
of scrolling foliations in golden yellow over a rose-pink ground, 
the scroll interrupted by conventional blossoms in light and dark 
blue, and various yellows, browns and reds. Corners repeat the 
medallion motive and colors. Borders of octagonal lattice and 
_ swastika fret. Early Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 331 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 12 feet; width, 11 feet 3 inches. 


Short, close, velvety pile. An ornate grill in brilliant sapphire- 
blue with a light outlining of pale turquoise, the spaces enclosing 
indefinite devices in pale greenish-yellow and light browns, extends 
over a large square field bounded by narrow brown and sky-blue 
guard-stripes. Narrow meander border in the body-color on 
sapphire-blue, and broad swastika-fret border in sapphire on the 
fawn ground. Mung. 


No. 8382 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SILK AND METAL CARPET 
Length, 13 feet 6 inches; width, 7 feet. 


Woven of raw silk with a large proportion of metal threads 
which seem to be silver and gold. The pattern suggests the 
western and southern Asiatic weaves, the field with an all-over 
repetitive geometrical design, the silk colors being pinkish tones, 
azure, turquoise, brown and dull green, with a dark metal ground- 
work. Of the several borders, varicolored, the principal one has 
a light metal groundwork. About the exterior is a band of rose. 
Fringed ends and overcast sides. Sixteenth century. (At the 
center of one side a piece of the border twelve by fourteen inches 
is missing. ) 


Second Afternoon 


No. 333 


CHINESE CARPET 
(Red and yellow, brown and white) 
Length, 13 feet 10 inches; width, 12 feet 6 inches. 


Deep, soft pile and loose texture. A rich, substantial and com- 
fortable fabric, in bright but harmonious colors. The ample 
square field of blood-orange red presents a galaxy of conventional 
butterflies, bats and varied scrolls, in tawny and bright golden 
yellows, golden browns, white, pink, salmon, and seal-brown. The 
four corners and the large central medallion are formed of the 
conventional archaic dragon-scroll (the dragon’s head presented 
in each instance), in light brown and soft white. A diamond- 
lattice border in various colors on white is succeeded by a 
swastika border in brown and bright yellow, and that by a 
broad boundary band of rich, dark brown, the several borders 
being separated from each other and from the field by pink, red, 
brown and pale-fawn stripes. Nineteenth century. 


No. 384 


LARGE ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 14 feet; width, 12 feet 10 inches. 


The field a floral lattice of sapphire-blue and grayish-brown, with 
a lighter brown panel reserved in the center, outlined in turquoise 
and sustaining a medallion formed of four archaic scrolling 
dragons, this in turn encompassing a smaller medallion of angular 
scroll. The angular scroll appears again in formal corners on 
ground of the same color as that of the central panel. Border 
of cloud and fungus scroll in two shades of blue interrupted by 
bats in brown, and a wider border of the swastika fret in two 
tones of brown. Ming. 


THIRD AFTERNOON’S SALE 
FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1915 


AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 


BEGINNING AT 2.30 oO’CLOCK 


Catalogue Nos. 335 to 464 inclusive 


No. 335 


PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 3 inches square. 


Dark blue ground with conventionalized floral figures distributed 
geometrically in lattice effect, in apricot and golden-yellow, light 
blue and white, about a medallion of the same colors. Border of 
geometrical fret in two shades of blue on an apricot ground. 
Late eighteenth century. 


No. 336 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Similar to the preceding (No. 835) and of the same period and 
dimensions, but slightly darker in tone. 


No. 837 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 3 inches square. 


Formal corners with floral ornamentation in apricot, dark and 
light blue and white, on a golden-yellow ground, encroach con- 
siderably upon a small field of brownish tone. This is marked by 
an unobtrusive lattice, which encompasses a conventional me- 
dallion repeating the colors of the corners. Fret border in light 
and dark blue, white, seal-brown, golden-yellow and peach tones. 
Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 388 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT OF MEDALLIONS AND BIRDS 
Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Short pile, close texture. In an oblong field, which is dense blue 
of sapphire quality, small medallions are implanted, singly, 
hinged in pairs, or grouped in trefoil formation, each medallion 
bearing a character or device and all contrasting with the deep 
blue field in their gayer colors of bright yellow and brown, salmon, 
gray-white and turquoise-blue. A solid border of turquoise-green 
and turquoise-blue carries other similar medallions, and at each 
corner is a conventional bird with outspread wings and open 
beak, worked in subdued but rich browns of light tone. Ejigh- 
teenth century. 


No. 839 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 5 inches square. 


The pile is short, with velvet surface, and from the field returns 
a softly glistening sheen, light in tone. The ground is decorated 
in a dull golden-yellow, dark blue and lighter blues, apricot and 
soft brown, with a floral medallion, foliations, sprays of the plum, 
bamboo and chrysanthemum, and branches of the pomegranate 
and Buddha’s-hand fruit. The border is a yellowish-brown of 
golden note, adorned with foliations and blossoms in dark and 
light blue and white, and is separated from the field by a strip 
of dark blue carrying white dots, and another carrying a white 
reversing fret. Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 840 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 
(Variegated) 


Dimensions, 2 feet 6 inches by 2 feet 6 inches. 


Short pile, soft and compact; loose texture. <A highly colorful 
“dragon mat” in brilliant notes, with yellows, blues and browns 
predominating. The field, a soft and delicate brown, displays 
a central dragon medallion, about which are grouped four ram- 
pant dragons as “corners,” the whole boldly done in brilliant 
golden yellows, light and dark blues, white and salmon-pink. 
The brilliant color scheme is continued in a broad complex border 
set off from the field by strong lines of dark and light blue and 
white, in an intermittent pattern. Overcast sides and fringe ends. 


Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 841 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 6 inches square. 


Fawn and tawny field with a nebulous luster, enclosing a medallion 
depicting a Fu lion in dark blue and turquoise-green, and a cub 
in golden-yellow, the field marked by scroll corners in apricot 
tones. Border of swastika fret in blue on a ground the color 
of the field, surrounded by an exterior strip of light tawny-yellow. 
Two sides fringed. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 342 
PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 7 inches square. 


Field of yellow-tawny note with a light and soft sheen, and a 
decoration of small medallions placed singly and in groups and 
worked in golden yellow, turquoise-blue, apricot, white and dark 
blue. Guard stripe of white dots on a blue of cobalt quality, 
and another of key-fret in golden-yellow on a similar blue; broad 
border varying from gray-fawn to a light olive-gray, adorned 
with medallions in golden-yellow, apricot and blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 843 
TWO ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MATS 


Dimensions, 2 feet 8 inches square. 


Viewed against the light the field presents tawny notes mingled 
with a fawn hue, and with the light upon it shows a silvery-brown 
luster with evanescent olive suggestions. A peony medallion in 
the center is held in the embrace of chrysanthemum foliations oc- 
cupying the corners, effected in neutral tones with touches of 
blue and a soft grayish-white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 344 
ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 


Dimensions, 2 feet 9 inches square. 


A field of tawny brown with a softness of sheen which enhances 
its coloring is adorned with a medallion in deep blue and a gray- 
ish-blue, touched with white and golden-yellow. In the medallion 
appear peony blossoms and a pheenix, the fabulous bird being 
seen with great wings spread while one foot rests momentarily on 
a rock. At the four cardinal points about the medallion are 
small conventional peony blossoms in light blue and white, and 
in the corners the peony blossom in white is supported by folia- 
tions in dark and light blue. K’ang-hsi. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 845 


. ANTIQUE CHINESE ANIMAL AND BIRD MAT 
Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Soft pile with heavy, firm texture. On a rich, deep sapphire field 
with a modest sheen, golden-yellow stags, which are spotted in 
white and turquoise-blue, appear below flying cranes in gray- 
white and turquoise—dual emblems of longevity, taking their 
places in a landscape of mountains and trees executed in sundry 
pale blues, grays and dull whites, intermingled with pale yellows 
and salmon-pink. Beyond a narrow fret border of white on blue 
is a broad border of floral forms in colors of the field decoration, 
with a Shou character at either hand. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 346 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 2 inches. 


A field of golden bronze of rich quality is profusely decorated in 
turquoise and sapphire, apricot and gray-white, with sprays of 
the plum and chrysanthemum, a peach, conventional butterflies, 
and corner foliations. In the center is a medallion, in which a 
figure seated on a branch holds a scepter on one arm and some de- 
vice or symbol in the opposite hand. <A narrow border of white 
swastika fret separates the field from a rich border in dark colors 
comprehending clusters of fruits, foliations, and song birds and 
others. Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 347 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RAW SILK SQUARE MAT 
(Red) 


Dimensions, 3 feet 4 inches square. 


A swastika lattice in gray-blue on a red ground is broken at 
the center by a medallion displaying formal devices in pale green, 
orange and red on a ground of café-au-lait. The field also carries 
a characteristic border in more or less neutral notes of yellow, 
blue and green tendency, with a dull white. The enclosing border 
is a fret in pale blue and white on a red ground, while outside a 
double guard-stripe is a narrow exterior band of pinkish tone. 
Kighteenth century. 


No. 348 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


A field rissolé is delicately adorned with flying birds and butter- 
flies, blossom sprays, foliations, and an unusual brocaded medal- 
lion formed of eight intertwining circles about a blossom center. 
The adornment is in subdued tones of apricot, a soft, grayish 
white, turquoise, and bolder lines of dark sapphire. In the border 
are detached units of the archaic dragon scroll, peony blossoms 
and Shou medallions, employing the colors of the field. Ejigh- 
teenth century. 


No. 349 
TWO CHINESE SILK SQUARE RUGS 


Dimensions, each: 3 feet 8 inches by 3 feet 4 inches. 


These have been sewn together as one rug. Short, close, com- 
pact pile. Within a key-fret border of deep blue on seal-brown, 
a broad band of light mustard-yellow carries an elaborate com- 
plex of temple ornaments and other decorative elements in brown, 
turquoise and brownish-red; while within a second similar border 
an inner square is filled with a further complexity of ornament, 
including conventional bat emblems and Show characters in simi- 
lar colors. Long fringe ends. Ming. 


Third A fternoon 


No. 850 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SMALL RUG 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Short pile, close texture. On a pale golden or yellowish-white 
ground shifting to light fawn, a central medallion of the archaic 
dragon-scroll highly conventionalized, in salmon-pink outlined 
with white, and embodied with foliations in strongly contrasting 
blues. The motive recurs in the corners, with similar colora- 
tion, and in the intermediate spaces of the field appear formal 
plants and household ornaments. Conventional borders of fret 
and floral forms in corresponding colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 351 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Purple and white) 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


An unusual chromatic scheme in Chinese rugs is presented, not 
only in the combination of purple and white but in the colors 
used with them in the ornamentation of the field. The border is a 
swastika-grill, diagonally arranged, in purple on a white ground. 
At either end of the soft-white field a saddled charger stands, 
tethered beneath a formal tree. His body is purple; mane and 
tail are a pale Nile-green; and in his trappings are used fawn, 
a fresh green and a rich orange-brown. Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 352 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Those familiar messengers the cranes are seen winging their 
way near cloud scrolls above the heads of spotted stags which 
hold in their mouths what appear to be conventionalized forms of 
the sacred fungus; at either side are trees and two swastika em- 
blems; all in two shades of blue on a field of light smoky-gray. . 
Wide and narrow borders of fret in the same colors. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 8538 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


The field a soft and lovely hue of golden rose, struggling with 
reticence through a sheen that is rather a halo; on it are small 
medallions grouped in twos and threes, or singly, in indigo and 
turquoise, apricot and golden-yellow, orange and white. Guard 
stripes of chevrons and of dots, in white or light blue on dark 
blue, lie near a border of medallions; among these are some of 
the Shou character, and with them are also found bats and 
floral forms on a glistening ivory ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 354 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet. 


The ground of field and border is a reddish-brown of deep or 
burnt note, a most unusual change from the original color as 
may be seen by comparison with the back. The field has a floral 
lattice in turquoise-green and a blue so dark that its effect is 
black, and the border carries a swastika-lattice in the same blue, 
interrupted by symbolic bats in a light golden-brown and the 
turquoise-green. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 855 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


In the shape of the silk-worm’s cocoon, with field and border 
conforming to the outline. The ground of both has a golden 
iridescence, and the field is spotted with small medallions of vari- 
ous tones and colors, mostly subdued, similar tones appearing in 
formal designs in the border. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 356 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Yellow of golden note and greenish tinge forms the ground of 
the field, which is decorated in two tones of blue, gray-white, 
soft brown and apricot, with foliations, conventional butterflies, 
and a medallion showing the chrysanthemum, bamboo and plum. 
Border with the peony pattern and foliations in golden-yellow, 
apricot, white and the two blues. Eighteenth century. 


No. 357 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Conventional willow trees spring from rocky hillsides at either 
end of a smoky-white field, and under each a horse with long, 
flowing tail, and wearing only a halter, is tied to a limb of the tree. 
The decoration is in sapphire-blue and turquoise-green, except 
that dark yellow is used for the halters and in spots at the base 
of the rocks. Eighteenth century. 


No. 358 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
(Sapphire and soft golden tints) 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Field of blue with the glow and brilliance of a precious jewel, 
adorned with complex medallions, fruits, plant sprays and con- 
ventional butterflies in pale yellows and browns, light blue and 
white; surrounded by a border where subtle ground confusion 
results in a golden blend, while bats, Show medallions and folia- 
tions appear in stronger colors. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 3859 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Of golden surface, inside an exterior band of brilliant light- 
sapphire blue, with narrow borders. of white dots and white fret 
on a similar blue demarcating the principal border of golden- 
toned swastika-fret from the field. The field is a profusion of 
ornament, vases and jardiniéres holding blossoming plants or 
shrubs filling the space between a medallion of Fu lions and 
archaic dragon scroll corners. Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 860 


CHINESE RUG 
Length, 4 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Loose, fluffy pile with a soft and yielding quality. The general 
body, without borders, is a light tawny-yellow, and covered with 
conventional tiger stripes in miniature, brown in color and re- 
peated in successive waves as radiating from a spinal ridge 
effected in the same deep brown as the stripe-symbols them- 
selves. At the ends of the rug the wave motive appears in high 
conventionalization, in two tones of blue, white, a light golden 
yellow, light brown, and rose. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 361 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


A rich golden yellow with soft sheen is the ground of the field, 
which is rectilinear, and on it are two medallions of the con- 
ventionalized archaic dragon scroll, with a medallion of two Fu 
lions with the brocaded ball between them, while peony blossoms 
and butterflies encircle the center medallion and in the corners 
are fret designs; all in sapphire, turquoise and white. Swastika 
border in sapphire on golden-yellow, between bands of blue. 
Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 362 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 


(Cat and birds) 
Length, 4 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Soft pile, with a brilliant sheen. The gleaming ground both of 
the field and border is of a light tawny hue, and is enriched 
throughout with many bright and joyous harmonious colors, 
and deep contrasting sapphire-blue. Trees and plants in 
abundant blossom spring from behind rocks at either end, and 
lively singing birds are perched in the branches. At the base 
of one rock sits a cat, while at the opposite end is a larger and 
more ferocious member of the feline species—one of the great 
cats, quiescent but portentous. Fringe ends, overcast sides. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 363 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Dark blue field, divided at the spinal ridge by a varied band 
of rich apricot, pale yellow, white and purple, and carrying two 
foliated medallions in similar coloring. ‘The same color scheme 
is used in the border, which lies between guard stripes of red 
and purple, the ornamentation in the border being Show and 
swastika medallions, bats and sprigs of pomegranates, peaches 
and Buddha’s-hand citron. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 364 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 


(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 7 inches. 


Silvery-white field, with a spotted stag in brilliant sapphire and 
a doe in light gray-blue at either end, a phcenix flying over the 
doe’s head in each instance. ‘Traditional rocks and vegetation 
as accessories in the decoration, all in two shades of blue and 
patches of soft browns. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 865 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 4 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet 7 imches. 


Salmon-pink ground with a bright sheen; seen against the light 
the tone fleets to rose. Decoration, five Fu lions, one in a center 
medallion guarding the brocaded ball, and one at each of the 
corners, executed in bright golden-yellow, deep sapphire, gray- 
blue, white and seal-brown. Further decoration of conventional 
peony sprays in similar coloring; formal border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 366 


CHINESE RUG 


(Red and black) 
Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 1 inch. 


Deep, soft pile. Rich, deep red, almost crimson, with a light 
sheen. The warm red hue pervades the whole fabric, from over- 
cast sides to fringed ends, interrupted only by a bold swastika 
border between guard-stripes, small corners within the long, 
narrow field, and an angular-fret medallion in the center, all in 
black—the medallion outline adapted from the conventional 
archaic dragon-scroll, and its center a swastika fret. 


No. 367 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 4 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Formed of a square mat and a recess mat of corresponding de- 
sign and period, which at some time have been put together to 
make a long rug. In each the principal motive is the five-clawed 
dragon, worked in a bright imperial yellow, pursuing or guarding 
the sacred flaming jewel among scrolled clouds; in the square are 
five of the dragons, in the recess mat two of them. In the bor- 
ders appear the ancient wave motive and foliations in white and 
two shades of blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 868 


CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Short, soft pile. Tawny hue with a light sheen. The body cov- 
ered with conventionalizations of the tiger stripe, in miniature 
repetitions, worked in blackish-brown. At either end the wave 
motive, highly conventionalized, with other conventional orna- 
mentation, in dark and light blue and white, on the general 
tawny ground which here is slightly warmed by blendings of yel- 
low and reddish-brown. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 369 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


In this rug six of the Fu-lions appear—an unusual number, since 
if more than one or two, the group generally comprises five or 
nine—and the customary brocaded ball is not here. Two of the 
lions are facing each other at either end of the field, and a large 
one and a cub are seen in a medallion at the center. In the border 
of foliations appear bat symbols and Show medallions. The 
decoration is in rich sapphire-blue and a gray-blue of turquoise 
quality; the ground is a soft grayish white. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 870 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SHORT STRIP 
Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Formed of three square mats separated by dark blue stripes, each 
with a golden-yellow center ornamented with a medallion in dark 
and light blue, white, golden-brown and apricot, and angular-fret 
corners in the two blues, and with a border of cloud-scrolls in 
white and the two blues, with golden-yellow and golden-brown, on 
a pinkish-apricot ground. Eighteenth century. 


No. 871 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 5 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 10 inches. 


The white field has taken a light and lustrous tan tone, with 
which its decoration in brilliant sapphire and a subdued turquoise- 
blue harmonizes most agreeably, the decoration presenting boldly 
drawn peony scrolls and foliations, in high conventionalization, 
with an adroit use of ground reserve in the blossoms. The same 
motive and method is pursued in a central medallion, and the cor- 
ners are formed of angular fret about a conventional blossom. 
Border in accord in color and design. Eighteenth century. 


No. 372 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet 2 inches. 


A field fluctuating between salmon and rose, with a light luster, 
is adorned with peony and other sprays, a medallion, a winter- 
blooming wild plum tree in blossom, and the sacred fungus grow- 
ing by a bamboo tree, effected in golden yellow, turquoise-blue, 
white and a rich dark blue. Border of foliations and blossoms 
in the blue tones, white, brown and the field color on bright golden 
yellow. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 373 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 5 inches; width, 3 feet 7 inches. 


Broad quadrilateral field of a soft écru tone, lying within a single 
narrow border of white petals on bright sapphire, this being 
placed between guard stripes of turquoise tone. The field has an 
abundant decoration of large sprays, conventional butterflies, 
jars of plants and generous corners, all as one large irregular 
group about a peony medallion. The colors are brilliant sap- 
phire, apricot, orange-pink and old gold. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 374 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 3 feet 5 inches. 


Light golden-yellow swastika lattice on a white ground, inter- 
rupted by a foliar medallion of gracefully scrolling patterns in 
peach tones, golden yellow, dark and light blue and white re- 
serve, and overlaid by sprays in similar coloring, while the cor- 
ners are angular scrolls in peach-red and pink and bright blue. 
Oblique fret and conventional foliate borders. Ends fringed; 
sides overcast. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 875 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white and dull gold) 
Length, 5 feet 11 inches; width, 3 feet 4 inches. 


Field and principal border have a ground of dull gold, and the 
ornamentation of both is in light and dark blue, with white, 
apricot, orange and brown. ‘The designs include ornamental 
vases and sprays, foliations at the corners, and at the center 
a medallion with a phcenix and kilin, in the field, and in the 
border bold foliations. An intermediate border is formed of a 
trellis of small medallions in white on a ground of the field color. 
(Border repaired). K’ang-hsi. 


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No. 376 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 11 inches; width, 3 feet 5 inches. 


Rectangular field of beautiful sapphire with a brilliant glow, its 
decoration in golden yellow, soft brown, turquoise, white and 
apricot comprehending a floral medallion, sprays of the rock 
peony, the winter-blooming: wild plum-tree, the bamboo, the 
Buddha’s-hand citron, the pomegranate, dragon-flies and butter- 
flies. Border of panels enclosing symbols and other designs, all 
in light tones and the panels outlined in light and dark blue, 
on a tawny ground. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 377 


ANTIQUE CHINESE BROAD RUG 
(Brilliant yellow) 
Breadth, 5 feet 10 inches; depth, 3 feet 6 inches. 


The field, in panel shape, has a ground of deep and rich yellow, 
varying in tone and intensity. Its decoration is the nine Fu 
lions, three at either end and three within a cloud medallion, all 
with a single exception seen from one long side of the rug, the 
exception facing the opposite side. One lion also has his foot on 
a branch of the sacred fungus. The colors used are dark blue and 
gray-blue, golden-yellow, white, brown and apricot-pink. Borders 
of diaper, fret and lattice, in white and dark blue, light blue, 
pinkish-apricot tones and light golden-yellow. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 378 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Old-gold, blue and salmon-pink ) 


Length, 5 feet 8 inches; width, 4 feet 1 inch. 


Long soft pile and loose texture. Five foliar medallions formally 
distributed share the broad quadrilateral field of bright old- 
golden hue with generous floral sprays, all alike executed in sap- 
phire and turquoise-blue, rich brown, a salmon hue and white. 
Formal border in accord, and enlivened with touches of bright 
canary-yellow. Fringe ends; overcast sides. Ch’ien-lung. 


(Illustrated) 


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No. 379 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 5 feet 11 inches; width, 3 feet 11 inches. 


Rectangular field within a border of white dots on blue and a 
swastika-fret border of blue on white. At each corner a Fu lion, 
and in a central medallion five of the lions, making the familiar 
group of nine, all in light and dark blue, with a slight use of 
white reserve. Around the medallion are sprays of scrolling 
flowers also in the two blues. Ch’ien-lung. (Repaired.) 


No. 880 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 1 inch; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


A long rug, the field arranged as a column with a plain capital 
and surrounded by a double border—a narrow fret in white on 
blue and a heavier swastika border in blue and orange. The 
field itself is a conventional floral trellis in soft pinks and blues 
and whites, with light golden yellow and accentuating darker 
blue. At the head is an ornamental device in angular scroll in 
two shades of blue. Eighteenth century. 


No. 881 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 8 inches. 


Brownish-white ground adorned with floral sprays, butterflies 
and foliations chiefly in two shades of blue, with yellows, peach 
tones and seal-brown added; a medallion in the center and formal 
corners. Border of the swastika-fret in sapphire on the brown 
ish-white ground, interrupted by twelve conventional butterfly 
medallions in yellows and browns. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 3882 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG MAT 
Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 11 inches. 


The oblong field of golden-tawny hue, with luster, is adorned with 
a profusion of sprays, assembled with vases and ancient bronzes 
about a foliar medallion, in dark and light blue, white, brown 
and apricot tones. Of several borders the principal one shows 
a blue swastika fret on golden ground, interrupted by conven- 
tional blossom forms. Eighteenth century. 


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No. 883 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Fawn and blue) 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. 


Rectilinear field of a soft, dark fawn color, with an interesting 
and unusual form of the archaic dragon-scroll employed with 
conventional foliations in an open medallion at the center, worked 
in dark blue and gray-white. The dragon motive is found again 
at the corners, where two shades of blue are used in the scroll, 
and over the balance of the field jars and boxes of plants are 
done in light and dark blue, yellow, dark brownish-red and white. 
Border of swastika-fret in dark blue on pale fawn. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 384 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 2 inches. 


Deep, rich, sapphire blue with a brilliant sheen throughout the 
field, which is decorated in golden tones, browns and light blue, 
and white, with a medallion, corners and large sprays, all in the 
peony motive, while large and small butterflies appear here and 
there. Border of angular fret, foliations and conventional blos- 
soms in white, the two blues and golden-yellow, on a brown- 
yellow ground. Eighteenth century. 


No. 885 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 


“Rice-grain”’ lattice in peach color on a golden yellow ground; in 
the center a foliated medallion of cerulean ground displaying 
conventional blossoms and scrolling foliations in peach tones, 
golden brown and golden yellow. The field is extensively cut 
into by the formal corners, two at one end in the blue of the 
central medallion ground and the opposite two with a ground 
of light sky-blue or palest turquoise; the decoration of each 
agrees with that of the medallion. Formal border in the various 
colors on a golden yellow ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 386 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Fawn and blue) 
Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 


Close, firm, short pile, with a soft sheen. The field of light fawn 
color carries a medallion of key-fret embraced within peony 
scrolls, and angular-fret corners, all executed in blue of a rich 
quality and brilliance. Border of the dragon scroll in detached 
units, alternating with floral scroll motives, in pale turquoise- 
blue and white on a ground of deep and brilliant blue. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 387 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches. 


A tan field with characteristic sheen is decorated with a large 
medallion and four smaller ones in deep, dark blue, a subdued 
golden-yellow, turquoise and white. The larger medallion em- 
braces four of the conventionalized archaic dragons amid formal 
flower patterns. Intervening spaces of the field are occupied by 
sprays, branches, and various articles of home decoration. Bor- 
ders of T-fret and foliations. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 888 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Golden yellow and rose-pink with blue and white) 
Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches. 


Deep, soft pile. Brilliant golden yellow over a large quadrangu- 
lar field, in which five large rose-pink medallions are set. The 
medallions in turn are made ornate with groups of butterflies in 
turquoise and sapphire blue, white and golden reserve, while 
graceful foliations in the two blues with white wind about the 
open spaces of the field. Formal floral border and an exterior 
narrow relieving band of black. Fringe ends and overcast sides. 
Eighteenth century. 


(Illustrated) 


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No. 889 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet 4 inches. 


The field, rectangular, has a ground of soft fawn color, which 
carries an extensive decoration in blue and white. At the cor- 
ners are archaic dragons, conventionalized in angular scroll, 
pendent from or supporting formal flowers, and in the center a 
composite medallion is enclosed within a cloud medallion. Else- 
where on the field are sprays, jars of plants and other objects of 
household decoration. A border of white dots on deep blue is 
followed by a border of diagonal fret in light blue on the dark 
blue ground, and that by a swastika-fret border in dark blue on 
the fawn color of the field. The latter border is interrupted 
by peaches of longevity and the fruit of the Buddha’s-hand 


citron. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 890 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
( Goldenrod-yellow) 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 


Effulgent yellow field, brilliant as a mass of goldenrod in the sun- 
light, ornate with flower sprays in pink, white and two blues en- 
wreathing a foliate medallion in the same colors. Elsewhere boxes 
of flowering plants, and four medallions with the archaic phoenix- 
scroll, within corners having the form of temple ornaments. 
Meander and foliate borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 391 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches. 


A broad lattice in light lime-yellow with interstices of pale rose- 
pink covers the field, between corners of formal floral scroll in 
two tones of blue and white. Conventional peony scrolls in the 
same colors are ranged at either side of a floral medallion simi- 
larly toned, which is centered by a finer floral scroll in the pale 
yellow. Floral border in harmony. Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 3892 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


A tawny ground with a light luster is overspread with a floral 
scroll largely in pale gold, the stems and foliations being wholly 
in this tone while the design is emphasized by intermittent blos- 
soms in dark and light blue and white. At each corner and in 
the center is a medallion worked in the same colors. There is a 
border of swastika fret in bright blue on a tawny ground; and a 
band of three stripes made up of variations on the tawny note 
lies between this border and an exterior band of solid blue. Seven- 
teenth century. 


No. 893 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 6 feet 9 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches. 


On a soft grayish-white field four foliar medallions and a central 
medallion embracing a Fu lion and cub are executed in dark and 
light blue, with a free use of white reserve. Elsewhere are sprays 
of the peony and chrysanthemum, clusters of the Buddha’s-hand 
fruit and pomegranates, and conventionalized butterflies, also in 
the two blues and ground reserve. Formal border of foliations in 
the blues on a white ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 394 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 8 inches; width, 4 feet 9 inches. 


The rectangular field is of a deep, rich tawny note, and without 
formal corners or medallion is ornamented with a convention- 
alized chrysanthemum scroll which distributes itself to all parts, 
in a deep, gem-like blue of great brilliancy and purity of tone. 
Two fret borders of the brilliant blue, and several stripes. Late 
Ming. 


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No. 395 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 11 inches; width, 5 feet. 


Field of salmon tone with a pinkish flush and fine sheen. The 
decoration includes floral and composite medallions, flowering 
trees, baskets of flowers on tripod stands, blossoming shrubs in 
large outdoor jardiniéres, and corners of foliations; all in dark 
and light blue, white, and golden yellows. Light border of 
chevrons, and a tricolor swastika-fret border on a dark blue 
ground. Boundary strip of brilliant blue. Eighteenth century. 


No. 396 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG RUG 
Length, 7 feet 7 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 


Oblong field of peach tone, brilliantly decorated with sprays in 
golden yellow, turquoise, white, dark blue, and pink, around a 
floral medallion involving the same colors without the pink. Bor- 
der of floral lattice in comparatively quiet tones, and a broader 
border of conventional floral designs in light and dark blue, pale 
yellow, white and dark orange, on an imperial yellow ground. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 397 


CHINESE RUG 
(Sapphire and golden yellow) 
Breadth, 7 feet 7 inches; depth, 4 feet 6 inches. 


Long, soft pile and loose texture. This is a broad and compara: 
tively shallow rug rather than a long and narrow one, properly 
speaking, the weft being so accomplished. The broad quadri- 
lateral field presents a solid ground of rich, deep sapphire-blue, 
with a fine sheen, this ground being cut into a widely open and 
erratic lattice by narrow, serrated white lines. The interspaces 
are adorned and the dentated lines eccentrically interrupted by 
floral sprays in bright golden yellow, orange-brown, blue, white, 
faint pinks and delicate fawn. Borders of white dots on blue, 
and golden-yellow swastika-fret on dark salmon. The narrow 
sides are overcast and the broad ends, or top and bottom, are 
fringed. 
(Illustrated) 


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No. 3898 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Golden yellow, blue, white and pink) 
Length, 7 feet; width, 4 feet 11 inches. 


A rug of brilliant coloring, the ground of the field a warm yellow 
with golden tones, and the ornamentation -in brilliant sapphire 
and light gray-blue, white, rose-pink and light chocolate. In the 
center a floral medallion encloses one of angular fret, in the cor- 
ners are peonies and scrolls; swastika-fret and meander borders. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 899 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 8 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


A rug of compelling attraction, in workmanship and color. The 
decoration within its long rectangular field is a conventional floral 
scroll, with foliations, exquisitely drawn in sapphire-blue of re- 
markable depth of tone, the large blossoms being effected with a 
delicate use of reserve and having each a single touch of turquoise. 
This is on a ground of very light buff, or écru, with a soft luster, 
the same ground being found in the border, which is formed of 
foliations in two tones of blue. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 400 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 2 inches; width, 5 feet 1 inch. 


In the center a peony medallion embracing a smaller one in which 
a white crane is flymg over the head of a spotted stag; corners 
of the archaic dragon scroll with foliations. Thickly placed 
about the field are vases, plants and various ornaments, all the 
ornamentation in turquoise and deep dark blue, white, golden 
yellows, pink and orange, on a light pinkish-brown ground. Bor- 
ders of meander and the swastika-fret. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third A fternoon 


No. 401 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Yellow and gold, blue and white) 
Length, 7 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


Rectangular field, the ground a warm yellow of golden note, 
laid with graceful interpenetrating scrolls of foliations and con- 
ventionalized blossoms in old gold, white, and dark and light 
blue. The floral network is interrupted by five foliated medal- 
lions in the two blues and white with ground reserve. Unusual 
border of light and graceful foliations also in the two blues, on 
a pale gold ground. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 402 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 1 inch. 


Bright yellow field of softened tone, in which a lattice almost in 
self-color is discernible, with five floral medallions each executed 
in pale gray-blue, deep dark blue, white, pink or orange, and 
golden-brown. Scattered between them about the field are bats 
and clusters of fruit—peaches, pomegranates and the Buddha’s- 
hand citron. Formal border in the colors of the body, and in- 
cluding small symbolic bats. Eighteenth century. 


No. 403 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG - 
Length, 7 feet 4 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


A field of light chocolate with a creamy sheen is blazoned with 
medallions of foliar and angular motives, and with numerous 
sprays and bold corners of heavily branching foliations, in very 
light golden-yellow, pink and peach tones, orange, turquoise, 
white and a modicum of sapphire blue. In the center medallion 
appears the ancient conventional dragon scroll. Formal borders 
in similar high keys, held down by a boundary strip of glowing 
sapphire. Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 404 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Salmon-pink with blue and white) 
Length, 7 feet 6 inches; width, 5 feet. 


The ground of the rug is a warm and brilliant salmon-pink inside 
a boundary band of sapphire-blue, the ground color persisting 
through two borders and the field. The outer border exhibits 
the swastika-fret in dark blue and is separated by a turquoise 
stripe from the second border which carries a T-fret in sapphire 
and turquoise. Between this border and the field, again, is a 
lattice band in the two blues on white, while the field displays 
eight medallions, scroll corners, butterflies and flower sprays, 
all also worked in the turquoise and sapphire-blues and white. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 405 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(A field of lions) 
Length, 7 feet 2 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


Soft, thick pile. Nine of the Fu lions are found in the broad 
salmon field, all vigorously executed in deep and light blue, white, 
light brown, and pale golden-yellow. One is at each of the 
corners, and one occupies the center with two others appearing 
above and below him, while a cub is on his back and another 
scampers at his feet. About the field are detached flower and 
leaf sprays. Border in accord. Eighteenth century. 


No. 406 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 6 inches; width, 5 feet 2 inches. 


Short, close, silky pile. A large composite medallion, embody- 
ing four pairs of archaic dragons in two shades of blue, outlined 
in white, alternating with peony blossoms in pink and rose and 
enclosed in pale golden-yellow foliations, holds the center of a 
rich orange-yellow field and embraces a smaller medallion of a 
rock-peony landscape. The mellow, glowing field is thickly 
strewn with sprays, emblems and ornaments, and its elaborate 
corners repeat the dragon and peony motives, all in brilliant 
color. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 407 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet. 


Soft pile and close texture with a light sheen. The field is rect- 
angular, its ground between tawny and tan, and into this are 
worked with scarcely a perceptible variation of the neutral body 
color innumerable bats, their beady eyes, only, being made con- 
spicuous in dark brown. The chiroptera are placed amongst 
myriad scrolls, which cleverly combine the conventional cloud- 
scroll with that of the outlines of the sacred fungus, these in 
deep blue, outlined and their details accented in light blue. Fret 
border repeating the ancient fylfot, in deep and brilliant blue 
on a ground of the field color, and a boundary strip or band of 
brown. Eighteenth century. 


No. 408 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


Loose, soft, deep pile. The field a “rice-grain” lattice of old- 
gold and golden-brown, over which are spread five stepped me- 
dallions of peach tone, worked with floral devices in light and 
dark blue, yellow, rose-pink and white. Borders of T-fret in 
light and dark blue on a bright and vivid yellow, and conventional 
floral scrolls and foliations in the colors of the medallions on the 
same peach-colored ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 409 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


Confused ground, yellow, tawny, fawn, in tone, with floral me- 
dallion and sundry ornaments in neutral notes with accents of 
crushed raspberry-pink, and at the corners foliations in two 
shades of blue clinging about the conventionalized archaic 
dragon-scroll in pinkish-brown. Meander border followed by a 
broader formal border, in harmonious keys. Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 410 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 11 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


An imperial yellow field of brilliant tone is adorned with a great 
Fu lion in blue of cobalt quality, with details in dark blue, yel- 
low reserve and white, eight other lions in various parts of the 
field and different positions, and numerous Buddhistic emblems 
of happy augury, all in the cobalt blue, deep blue, white, brown, 
pink and orange tones. Border in the peony motive laid on a 
delicate apricot. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 411 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Breadth, 7 feet 10 inches; depth, 5 feet 8 inches. 


Short pile, close texture. A rug of rare and peculiar color, the 
ground of both field and borders having the tone of a dull fire- 
red, with slight glow. In the center a medallion of archaic 
dragon-scroll with foliations encircles a group of five lions, one 
cub sporting on its elder’s back. The dragon-scroll is used 
again in the corners, and about the medallion in the field are 
incense-burners, a prayer-wheel, jars of plants and sprays of 
flowers and fruit, all the ornamentation being in dark and light 
blue and white. Fret and foliate borders. Early Ch’ien-lung. — 


No. 412 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, % feet 10 inches; width, 6 feet 2 inches. 


Deep, soft, thick pile; loose but firm texture. While conven- 
tionally a “blue and white” rug, the white ground of this example, 
whether in field or borders, is a toned white, more nearly a light, 
silvery fawn, mildly shimmering. The quadrangular field is 
adorned with five elaborate foliar medallions, the central one a 
large one, with flying butterflies, large sprays and conventional 
foliate corners, all in sapphire and turquoise blues. Fret and 
foliate borders. Early Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 418 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Salmon-pink, golden-yellow and blue) 
Length, 7 feet 10 inches; width, 6 feet 5 inches. 


On the salmon-pink field a circular medallion picturing five Fu 
lions in turquoise-green, a golden yellow, gray-white and deep, 
dark blue; scattered ornaments and formal corners in similar 
coloring. Hatched border in two blues and white arranged in a 
meander, within a broad swastika-fret border in bright golden- 
yellow on salmon-pink, with occasional interpositions of the blues 
and white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 414 


ANTIQUE CHINESE FRAGMENT 
Length, 7 feet 10 inches; width, 6 feet 8 inches. 


While appearing in rug form this is an inglorious putting- 
together of two glorious fragments. The rug in its original form 
must have been stunning; the color and the workmanship sur- 
viving attest it. The field is a tawny hue with soft, glistening 
sheen, in places with olive-green suggestions. Its principal deco- 
ration is two large Fu lions powerfully drawn and expressively 
posed, worked in orange and white, with eyebrows, spinal ridge 
and bushy tail in a fine green, as in the ancient potteries. About 
them are cloud scrolls. Originally there were other lions in the 
field, as may be seen near the cut edges which have been pieced 
together. Mung. 


No. 415 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(“Blue and white’) 
Length, 8 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 1 inch. 


Pearl-gray field, quadrangular, adorned with foliar medallions 
five in number, corners of foliations pendent from convention- 
alizations of the peony, and a ramification of conventional foliate 
and flower scroll extending to all parts, in dark and light blue. 
Border of gammadions in a continuous fret in blue on the gray 
ground, and an outer band of solid blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 416 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 1 inch; width, 5 feet 6 inches. 


Pale écru ground with a light sheen. The decoration in various 
peach and apricot tones, golden yellow and dark and light blue, 
comprises five medallions of angular and foliate formation, the 
large one exhibiting eight of the archaic dragon-headed scrolls, 
formal corners in the same dragon motive, and bamboo, magnolia, 
chrysanthemum and other sprays. Border of foliations and 
flower forms in two tones of blue, white and other colors used in 
the field on a dark peach-color ground. Eighteenth century. 


No. 417 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SILK AND METAL RUG 
Length, 8 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 3 inches. 


Woven of raw silk with a free use of metal threads wound about 
others. The field is decorated with an elaborate pattern evolved 
from floral motives and combined with some geometric lines. Its 
well worn colors give an effect of blue and green and yellow detail 
on a brown or fawn ground, the general tone of the ground color 
‘being continued in the successive borders, whose decoration also 
Shares the colors of the field. Maing. 


No. 418 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Medallions and flowers) 
Length, 8 feet 2 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


Soft loose pile. Over a field of neutral tones and brilliant sheen, 
large stems and branches of flowers lie thick between eight various 
medallions, and at either end appears a large and brightly colored 
butterfly. The medallions are partly floral and partly formed of 
the archaic dragon-scroll. The colors in the decoration include 
deep, dark blue, pale gray-blue, light lemon-yellow and _ seal- 
brown. Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 
No. 419 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Flame and golden-yellow) 
Length, 8 feet 4 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


Deep soft pile and loose texture, with silken shimmer. Rich 
salmon-red or flame-color field, ornate with flowering branches 
and sprays in brilliant golden-yellows, seal-brown, deep sapphire 
and light turquoise-blue, and white; and among the branches 
butterflies displaying the same or similar colors. A broad border 
of conventional flowers and foliations reveals also numerous Shou 
characters and medallions with the bat symbols of longevity and 
the swastika. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 420 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet; width, 5 feet 8 inches. 


A field of greenish gold is strewn with repetitions of a floral 
spray in light and dark blue, white and orange, there being all 
told seventeen of the sprays, while eighteen butterflies in similar 
coloring and varying in size are to be found amongst them. Bor- 
der of floral motives and foliations in the colors of the field on 
an apricot ground. Eighteenth century. 


No. 421 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 4 inches; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


A broad field of tawny tone bounded by a narrow blue stripe is 
occupied by a formal arrangement of short sinuous lines, dis- 
tributed in pairs and concentric as to each pair, in dark brown. 
The pattern is interrupted at the center by a parallelogram of 
scintillating azure-blue, on which conventional scrolls suggestive 
of cloud-scrolls appear in successive transverse bands and in 
various soft browns and yellows. Swastika-fret border in pale 
pinkish tone on a grayish ground. Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 422 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


Mi sé or millet-colored field with a “‘rice-grain” lattice revealing 
apricot tones and bold spots of golden-brown; this interrupted 
by eight medallions of floral motives in light and dark blue, white, 
pale apricot and brown. A border of large white discs on bright 
blue is followed by a border of oblique fret scroll in the millet- 
color, also on blue, and that by a broader border of swastika 
fret in light and dark blue, white, golden yellow and apricot. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 423 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


A swastika trellis in brilliant sapphire covers a lghter blue 
ground of turquoise hue, and encloses a medallion picturing a 
pheenix and a kilin in bright yellows on a deep blue ground. Or- 
namental vases and detached sprays are found about the field, in 
the bright yellow colors, and heavy corners in which the orange 
predominates involve a key and swastika fret and convention- 
alized blossoms. Various borders. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 424 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Peach and golden yellow) 
Length, 8 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches. 


Field of peach hue, decorated with a medallion and formal cor- 
ners, sprays, household ornaments and jars of plants, in a light 
and brilliant golden yellow, rich seal-brown, pink and apricot 
tones, light turquoise and dark blue and a great deal of white. 
Borders of large white dots and a white fret on blue, and a wider 
border of conventional patterns keeping up the bright and strik- 
ing color scheme of the field. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 425 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


Apricot field in a deep and handsome shade, bound by corners of 
geometrical fret in light blue traced upon and enclosing a dark 
blue ground. In the center a cloud ring encloses a medallion of 
five lions and around it are flower sprays and jars of flowers, in 
light and dark blue, white, golden brown and a bright golden 
yellow. Diaper border in turquoise, light apricot and white, and 
a wide border in white and the two blues with apricot and gold 
on a deep blue ground. Fringed ends. Eighteenth century. 


No. 426 


CHINESE RUG 
(Varicolored) 
Length, 8 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


Fancy was unrestrained in the coloring of this carpet, which 
blazes forth in chromatic assertiveness, confident and complete. 
The pile is soft and thick and the workmanship careful and 
correct. The field of orange note carries corners of elaborately 
scrolled foliations and a foliar medallion encircling a smaller one 
which contains a spotted stag looking up at a flying crane. Else- 
where are expansive sprays and conventional butterflies, and the 
whole decoration is in bright golden-yellow, peach-red, turquoise 
and deep dark blue, white and brown, with the pure white not- 
ably conspicuous. Border of diagonal scroll-fret in white on 
dark blue, and in a wider border of dark blue ground are floral 
sprays and many panels, all brightly decorated like the field. 


No. 427 


CHINESE TIGER RUG 
Length, 9 feet 7 inches; spread, 4 feet 6 inches. 


Thick pile; loose. The rug is fashioned to imitate a tiger-skin 
that has been made into a rug, the body woven in a tawny-yellow 
striped in a bluish-black. The edges, representing the lighter 
underbody, are in light yellow and white; the eyes in vivid yellow, 
and blue and black; and the paws, ears and gray parts of the 
face in mixed colors and raised in relief. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 428 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Phenix and peony) 
Length, 9 feet; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


Dense pile. Brilliant yellowish-tawny field, with sheen, decorated 
wholly in the pheenix and peony motive in dark blue, turquoise 
and white, with touches of light brown. Inthe corners are looped 
branches of the peony; detached sprays with expansive blossoms 
are placed about the field, where six pheenixes are flying amongst 
them, and in a central medallion the peony and other trees are 
seen springing from among rocks, with singing birds high in the 
branches. Eighteenth century. 


No. 429 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet 1 inch; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


On a pinkish ground with a light sheen are implanted branches 
of the tree peony carrying very large blossoms, in golden-brown 
and pale golden-yellow, white, dark and light blue and pinkish- 
brown, together with corner foliations in white and the two blues; 
in addition there are conventional butterflies in the several colors, 
and a cloud medallion enclosing five of the Fu lions, the central 
beast in blue and white, and the others circling around him in 
yellow and brown. Conventional borders. Eighteenth century. 


No. 430 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 9 feet 2 inches; width, 5 feet 10 inches. 


Deep, close, soft pile; the ground a soft grayish-white. At the 
corners the conventionalized archaic dragon—two to each cor- 
ner—has been worked into a combined key and swastika scroll- 
fret, the motive recurring with foliations in a double medallion at 
the center. On the field appear bold floral patterns of conven- 
tional form, with butterflies, and twenty-two butterflies are seen 
with conventionalized floral and foliate ornament in a narrow 
border, outside which a broad border is made up of sections 
of swastika lattice alternating with floral forms and emblematic 
devices. All the decoration is in two tones of blue, with touches 
of yellowish-brown added sparingly. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 4381 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 11 inches; width, 5 feet 8 inches. 


Similar to the preceding (No. 4380). 


No. 4382 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(“Blue and white’) 
Length, 9 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 8 inches. 


Soft, deep, silky pile. The conspicuous and dominant feature 
of the field is a superb sapphire-blue lattice, based upon the 
mystic fylfot motive, on a ground of gris souris. The lattice is 
interrupted by pointed medallions of the ground color, outlined 
in turquoise and white, displaying foliate and angular ornamen- 
tation in dark and light blue and white. At the corners are in- 
tertwining foliations in white and the two blues. Bold fret bor- 
der. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 4338 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 8 inches. 


Quadrilateral field of quiet autumn brown, ornamented with in- 
tertwining stems, leaves and blossoms of the chrysanthemum, con- 
ventionalized. ‘These occupy the whole spread of the field be- 
tween a medallion and the corners, all effected in the motive of the 
conventionalized archaic-dragon scroll. All the decoration is in 
dark blue, a grayish-blue and white, and around the field is a 
border of fylfot fret in dark blue on brown. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 434 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(“Blue and white’) 
Breadth, 9 feet 2 inches; depth, 6 feet 7 inches. 


Deep, close pile. According to the weave the rug is a broad 
one—its depth less than its breadth—rather than a long one. 
A whitish-gray field displays peony blossoms and other flowers, 
water plants and butterflies, in two shades of blue, about a large 
floral medallion which encircles a smaller one enclosing two con- 
ventional archaic dragons. Corners of angular scroll and swas- 
tika fret. Swastika-fret and dot borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 4385 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet 11 inches; width, 6 feet 9 inches. 


On a yellowish-brown field a cloud medallion in the center en- 
circles a group of five Fus, while four more of the strange beasts 
occupy the corners. They are executed in dark blue and tur- 
quoise, white and pale yellow, golden-brown and orange, and the 
same colors are carried through further decorative elements, in- 
cluding conventional butterflies and various sprays. In the bor- 
der appears an adaptation of the ancient highly conventionalized 
archaic dragon scroll. Eighteenth century. 


No. 486 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet 2 inches; width, 7 feet. 


The entire field of this rug is given over to a trellis of octagonal 
figures, outlined in a fair, pale turquoise on a ground of varying 
yellows, the crossings marked in deeper yellow and brown, and 
all melt into a golden sheen where details matter not. Around 
this is a narrow lattice border in sapphire-blue, yellow and tur- 
quoise, followed by a swastika fret border in sapphire on tawny 
brown, and outside these are stripes in the various yellows. Sev- 
enteenth century. 


No. 4387 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet 4 inches; width, 7 feet. 


Deep red-brown field with coppery sheen, the corners a key fret 
traced in light blue on a dark blue ground and enclosing at the 
elbow dark blue swastikas on red-brown reserve. At the center a 
composite medallion of foliations in white and gold and the 
angular conventionalization of the archaic dragon-scroll in two 
tones of blue with white. About the field appear the pomegranate 
and citron, plum and magnolia, with various symbols of art and 
culture, in gray-white, old gold, and dark and light blue. T-fret 
reversing border in the two blues on a ground of the field color. 
Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 438 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Old-gold and blue) 
Length, 9 feet 10 inches; width, 8 feet 5 inches. 


Deep, soft, silky pile. The great field, almost square, is re- 
splendent in a golden sheen. This seems to envelop the elusive 
ground-color, whose wavering tones suggest a peach-flush. The 
entire field is spread with branches of the blossoming tree-peony, 
conventionalized, and laid in in an old-golden yellow, deep sap- 
phire, pale turquoise, white, and a cadet blue of cobalt quality. 
Border of deep, glowing sapphire-blue on pale gold, and a broad 
exterior border of sapphire. Eighteenth century. 


No. 439 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 10 feet 4 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


The field is a soft ivory white and has corners of angular fret 
in orange and blue with white reserve. In the center is a cloud 
medallion encircling a group of five Fu-lions, in golden brown 
and light yellow, orange and pink and two tones of blue. Peony 
sprays and vases of flowers in similar colors give additional deco- 
ration. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 440 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Fawn-gray and sapphire) 
Length, 10 feet 10 inches; width, 6 feet 7 inches. 


Deep, close, silky pile, with a lustrous softness of tone, the long 
quadrangular field having an agreeable fawn-gray ground, 
prodigally worked in a dense and brilliant sapphire-blue with an 
all-pervading and graceful chrysanthemum scroll. Borders of 
T and swastika fret in the same gem-tone, on a tawny-yellow 
ground, within a binding stripe of slightly lighter sapphire hue. 
K’ang-hsi. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 441 


ANTIQUE INDO-CHINESE SILK RUG 
(Old-rose and azure) 
Length, 10 feet 8 inches; width, 6 feet 8 inches. 


One of the fine examples of the work of those Chinese weavers who 
displayed the influences of Western Asia in their productions. 
The whole fabric suggests Persia. It retains its beauty despite 
all the scars of a long and arduous service. The field is old rose, 
with a profuse floral and geometric ornamentation in a crystalline 
azure, soft pink, a faint green and glints of old gold. Of its 
several borders the principal one has a ground of the brilliant 
azure, its decoration a repetitive formal design and incidental 
latch-hooks. Sixteenth century. 


No. 442 


ANTIQUE CHINESE BROAD RUG 
Breadth, 10 feet 9 inches; depth, 6 feet 4 inches. 


Light greenish-yellow ground with slight sheen, decorated with 
many household ornaments and sprays of flowers and fruits, in 
various pinks, yellows and blues, with white. Floral borders, one 
with a yellow ground, one with a ground of brownish-red. Ch’ien- 
lung. 
No. 443 
ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Square) 
Dimensions, 10 feet 10 inches square. 
Thick, soft pile, with light sheen. Golden-yellow ground tray- 
ersed by a complicated swastika-lattice of coppery tone, inter- 
rupted by nine medallions, each formed of two white cranes 


touched with pink and deep dark brown, their wings curved to 
complete a circle. Fret and foliate borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 444 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 10 feet 10 inches; width, 10 feet 8 inches. 


Square field of a pearly gray tone, with thirteen medallions of 
conventional floral pattern and numerous sprays and butterflies, 
besides corner foliations, all in dark and light blue. Fret border 
in the two blues and a border of flowers and foliations in the 
two blues on white; exterior band of solid blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


Third A fternoon 
No. 445 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 11 feet 8 inches; width, 6 feet 3 inches. 


The large field, of soft rose tone, holds five delicately outlined 
medallions of graceful floral scroll, done in sapphire-blue, tur- 
quoise, white and pinkish-brown. The interspaces carry a gen- 
erous distribution of detached sprays on a large scale, worked in 


the same colors. Early Ch’ien-lung. (Slightly repaired. ) 


No. 446 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 11 feet; width, 6 feet 8 inches. 


Close, soft, deep pile. The whole ground of the rug is a warm 
salmon-pink, bounded by a solid band of deep sapphire-blue. A 
border of scrolling foliations in two shades of blue with rhite, 
and a second border of deep blue fret, both on the same ground 
encompass the long quadrilateral field, where the salmon ground 
continues and is traversed by a bold conventional scroll of flowers 
and foliations in deep blue, cobalt and white. Fringe ends; 
overcast sides. 


No. 447 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Neutral tones) 


Length, 11 feet 9 inches; width, 6 feet 10 inches. 


Deep close pile. Long, quadrilateral field, within a succession of 
modest stripes and borders, wholly covered with a lattice of quiet 
tones surrounding a foliated medallion outlined in tawny-yellow 
and containing elaborate foliations in dark and light blue, gray- 
white and pale yellow, on an orange-brown ground. In the lat- 
tice the colors are low tones of browns, yellows and blues, and 
the pattern includes interstitial swastikas. Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 448 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 11 feet 3 inches; width, 9 feet. 


Deep soft pile. A deep border of floral medallions at the rug’s 
edge is followed by a broader border of the swastika-fret in bold 
line, the flowers of the first border done in turquoise and white 
on a cobalt ground, the fret in deeper blue on a white ground. 
On the quadrangular white field, within heavy conventional cor- 
ners, symbolical bats circle among conventional cloud-scrolls 
about a majestic medallion of angular scroll in the turquoise and 
cobalt blues combined with an inverted repetition in white re- 
serve, and a floral center. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 449 


ANTIQUE CHINESE BROAD RUG 
Breadth, 11 feet 5 inches; depth, 9 feet 1 inch. 


Quadrangular field of chestnut-brown, with an all-over decora- 
tion of conventionalized peony scroll, the blossoms notably en- 
larged, in light and dark blue, white, and bright golden yellow. 
Swastika-fret border, the figures in the two blues and white, 
golden-yellow and orange-pink, and an outer border of interlac- 
ing meander in the same colors. Beyond this is an exterior band 
of solid color, a rich blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 450 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 11 feet 7 inches; width, 6 feet. 


Deep soft pile. Four fierce dragons in high conventionalization 
form a large central medallion as they pursue each other around 
a Show character which may represent the sacred jewel. They 
are in a wonderfully fine, rich, gem-like blue, as is the rest of the 
decoration, consisting of beautiful scrolling foliations in re- 
strained design, with other dragons at the corners, on the large, 
soft grayish-white field. A fret border in orange-pink intervenes 
between the field and an outer blue and white border of folia- 
tions. K’ang-hsi. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 451 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 11 feet; width, 7 feet 11 inches. 


A joyous fabric of golden sunlight and the sea, butterflies and 
summer flowers. The ground is the hue of the blown wild rose, and 
its ornamentation is old-gold, golden-brown, turquoise and sap- 
phire and white. At the ends are rocks and leaping waves and 
more sunshine, and at the sides borders of fret and foliations. 
Seventeenth century. 


No. 452 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 11 feet 8 inches; width, 6 feet 10 inches. 


Within a deep band of solid blue and some narrow guard stripes, 
the whole field is given to an all-over pattern of octagonal fig- 
ures forming an open lattice of large proportions. ‘The lines 
are in dark blue and enclose a confused ground of greenish-yellow 
and orange or apricot, while at the crossings the swastika is 
worked in blue. Seventeenth century. 


No. 453 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 11 feet 3 inches; width, 10 feet 9 inches. 


The square golden field is adorned with five medallions, one large 
and four small ones, formed of foliations and blossoms in light 
and dark blue, orange and brown. There are formal corners in 
similar coloring and detail, and around the field are branches 
of the rock peony and conventional butterflies. Border of re- 
versing fret in blue on rose-pink, another of flower forms and 
foliations in the field colors generally, and a wide outer border 


of rich sapphire-blue. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 454 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 11 feet 5 inches; width, 10 feet 11 inches. 


Short compact pile. The entire quadrangular field, interrupted 
by medallion or technical “corners,” is covered by a brilliant con- 
ventional floral-scroll, boldly executed in broad lines in golden- 
yellow on a tawny ground. Borders of octagonal lattice in 
browns, yellows and pale blue, and a swastika-fret in brilliant 


blue. Ming. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 455 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(“Blue and white’’) 
Length, 11 feet 5 inches; width, 11 feet. 


Deep soft pile; loose texture. Of the blue and white class, the 
“white” of this large carpet is really a soft gray, extending over 
a square field and appearing again as a ground in the two bor- 
ders—one a double T-fret and the other of conventional folia- 
tions. The decoration of the great field, in two tones of blue, 
comprises a foliar medallion, sprays, blossoms, butterflies, and 
formal foliate corners. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 456 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 11 feet 9 inches; width, 11 feet 4 inches. 


With a medallion of angular scroll in the center, and corners of 
the same scroll, both in tones of quiet yellow and brown, the blue 
field carries over the rest of its surface a conventional scroll of 
foliations with formal conventionalized flower patterns, effected 
in similar tones. Swastika-fret border. K’ang-hsi. (This rug 
has been cut in two and sewn together.) 


No. 457 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Azure and dull gold) 
Length, 12 feet 1 inch; width, 6 feet 3 inches. 


The whole great field exhibits an intricate pattern of floriated 
scroll, executed with the precision of a stencil, in tones of dull 
gold on a ground of deep and scintillant azure. The field is out- 
lined with a narrow guard stripe of the dull golden tone, and the 
whole bounded by a border which continues the field motive, in 
the same hue on a ground of the same effulgent blue. Ming. 
(Repaired. ) 
No. 458 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Storks among clouds) 
Length, 12 feet 2 inches; width, 6 feet 3 inches. 


Brilliant azure field spread thickly with small conventional clouds 
in formal transverse lines, the clouds represented in a soft milky 
brown or café-au-lait, and among them flying eighteen storks ar- 
ranged in five rows, the birds done in turquoise and gray-white. 
White swastika-fret border on a blue ground. Seventeenth cen- 
tury. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 459 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 12 feet 3 inches; width, 6 feet 8 inches. 


Deep close pile. Bright yellow field, of slightly greenish tone, with 
brilliant sheen; conventional foliate scroll corners; central me- 
dallion enclosing a group of five Fu-lions in light and dark blue, 
white and pinkish-brown. About the field butterflies and flowers 
in pinkish-brown, orange tones, white, and turquoise and sapphire 
blues. Meander and swastika borders in brilliant colors, harmo- 
nizing. Ch’ien-lung. 
No. 460 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Golden yellow and blue) 
Length, 13 feet 10 inches; width, 6 feet 5 inches. 


_ Large rectilinear golden-yellow field, with variable sheen, covered 
with detached sprays of peony blossoms and scrolls—an_ oc- 
casional butterfly appearing among them—in sapphire and tur- 
quoise-blue, apricot tones and white. Reciprocating fret border 
and an outer foliate border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 461 


LARGE ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE CARPET 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 12 feet 9 inches; width, 11 feet 1 inch. 


An elaborate, refined and unusual open scroll, of conventionalized 
floral design, effected in a deep sapphire blue with the use of re- 
serve, is gracefully carried over the whole big field, which is of a 
soft white tone. A scroll fret border in blue on white is suc- 
ceeded by a border of conventional blossoms and foliations in blue 
and white on a yellowish ground. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 462 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 18 feet; width, 9 feet. 


Yellow ground of a light ochre hue, with bold corners of 
foliations, conventional peony flowers and the archaic dragon in 
conventionalized angular scroll form, in dark and light blue, 
white, a peach tone and pinkish-brown. The same colors are used 
with a light golden-yellow in a large medallion containing the nine 
Fu-lions, and in sprays and home and garden ornaments, which 
are distributed over the field. Two borders. Eighteenth century. 


Third Afternoon 


No. 463 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 13 feet; width, 9 feet 9 inches. 


The great field is of very pale golden aspect, as to its ground, 
which is everywhere threaded by a maze of the peony scroll, with 
peony blossoms. highly conventionalized and other conventional 
forms interrupting or accenting it, and- numerous conventional 
butterflies interspersed, these details in various darker colors. 
Fret border in pink on a yellow ground; swastika-fret border in 
blue so deep that it appears black, on a pinkish-brown ground, 
and an exterior band of deep brown. Overcast sides and fringed 
ends. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 464 


LARGE ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 16 feet 3 inches; width, 13 feet 2 inches. 


A rug of remarkably large size, these very large ones not often 
appearing. The whole vast field is a soft, delicate and even old- 
rose in its ground, over which is laid an open grill of geometrical 
pattern, its figures effected in C-scrolls of sapphire-blue outlined 
on both edges with turquoise. The interspaces show conventional 
flower devices in pale yellows. Borders of key and fylfot fret and 
numerous stripes. Eighteenth century. 


FOURTH AND LAST AFTERNOON’S SALE 
SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1915 
AT THE AMERICAN ART GALLERIES 
BEGINNING aT 2.30 o’cLOcK 


Catalogue Nos. 465 to 585 inclusive 


No. 465 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 
(Blue, green and white) 


Dimensions, 2 feet 5 inches by 2 feet 3 inches. 


Short pile and loose texture. The square field is a rich, full, 
dark sapphire-blue, within narrow guard-stripes of white and 
pale bottle-green, and a T-fret border executed in the same 
colors. The field is occupied by four lions of archaic vigor of 
expression, each filling a corner, the group being centered by a 
ball with numerous fillets which curl out to the lions’ feet. Both 
beasts and filleted ball are worked in the bottle-green and white, 
with touches of tawny-yellow and bits of the deep sapphire 
reserve. Overcast sides; fringed ends. Ch’ien-lung. 


Fourth and Last Afternoon 


No. 466 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet. 


(Or short strip). Short velvety pile, with varying sheen; the 
predominant hue a rich, sugary brown with tawny trend, lying 
between narrow border stripes of golden brown and golden yellow. 
The ornamentation of this rich, subdued ground reveals Fu- 
lions, fungus and cloud forms, and Buddhistic emblems, some 
boldly executed in dark seal-brown, deep sapphire-blue and dull 
emerald-green, and other parts of the decoration in sympathetic 
golden yellows of softened tone, and modest neutral tints. 
K’ang-hsi. 


No. 467 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Gold and blue) 
Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Short, dense pile, lustrous of surface, the field a rich mazarin 
blue of depth and dignity. On it are laid six Fu lions in golden 
yellow and tawny tones, two of them in a medallion guarding the 
brocaded ball and two at either end among gracefully scrolling 
foliations. Here and there are details in white and a fair tur- 
quoise hue. The golden tones supply the border ground, sup- 
porting designs in dark and light blue with touches of white. 
K’ang-hsi. 


Fourth and Last Afternoon 


No. 468 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and old gold) 
Length, 4 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Soft, deep pile. The whole body of the rug is a rare turquoise, 
with a confusing sheen, and takes sometimes the aspect of a hazy 
sky-blue. A white stripe and a line of white fret enclose a gen- 
erous border of leaf and floral forms in golden brown, golden 
yellow and white, all lying lightly in the blue body, while within 
a second white guard-stripe is encompassed the fair expanse of 
the oblong turquoise field proper. Here household ornaments 
thickly cluster around a medallion enclosing deer and a Fu lion, 
—all accomplished in yellows, browns, white and old gold on the 
basal blue. Fringe ends; sides overcast. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 469 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Cerulean field with a light sheen, adorned with two of the feng- 
huang swooping toward two kilins looking upward, while flaming 
wheels whirl in space near by; the whole in pale turquoise and 
a pale grayish-white, touched with apricot. Borders of fret, 
foliations and Show medallions on a ground of the field color. 
Eighteenth century. 


Fourth and Last Afternoon 


No. 470 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Silvery fawn and blue) 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Short pile and velvety sheen; close, compact texture. The un- 
usual ornamentation of this rug—a complex union of diverse 
decorative elements—is accomplished in rich but in no way insist- 
ent dark blue, softened and relieved by lighter grayish-blues, on 
a fawn ground with a slight silvery sheen; and although without 
formal lines of definition or segmental separation whatever, yet 
supplies border and corners and field, in the accepted plan of 
traditional rug decoration. Around a central floral medallion 
are sprays and boxes of plants, at the corners are angular and 
archaic scrolls, and in the engaging and informal border appear 
besides conventional floral scrolls, Shou characters, the swastika, 
bat emblems and grotesque bird-heads. Early Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 471 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Blue and gold) 
Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


Field in dark blue of wonderful depth and richness, adorned with 
a brocaded medallion, butterflies and sprays of blossoms and 
leaves in golden, apricot and turquoise tones. Border of the 
peony design in light and dark blue with white, on golden ground. 
K’ang-hsi. 


Fourth and Last Afternoon 


No. 472 


ROUND CHINESE RUG 


Diameter, 2 feet 10 inches. 


On a circular field of deep, dark blue, within a tawny border, 
two lions boldly sketched in lively action appear about a filleted 
ball. They are woven in the tawny tone of the border, emphasized 
by deeper patches of ochre, sections of bluish-green resembling 
the hue of the washed turquoise, and reserved dots in the deep 
blue of the round field. Edge bound. Ejighteenth century. 


No. 473 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


A kilin at either end looks up toward a phenix flying above his 
head, both being done in yellow and apricot tones, with light tur- 
quoise-blue, on a dark blue ground. Border of foliations, me- 
dallions and symbolic bats in the lighter colors on dark ground. 
Eighteenth century. 


Fourth and Last Afternoon 


No.}474 


RARE GREEN ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Sage-green and golden-brown) 
Length, 3 feet 8 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Soft pile, closely woven, with a delicate sheen. Formal geo- 
metrical medallions embodying ancient elements of design furnish 
the principal decorative motive of an oblong field, two of the 
medallions complete, with corresponding hemispheres midway of 
the sides, and quadrants at the corners. Intermediate deco- 
ration appears in the form of vases with flowers. The whole in 
golden yellows and browns, delicate and mellow, picked out and 
emphasized by strong sapphire-blue, on a ground of softened 
sage-green. Surrounding all are sundry borders, bounded by 
a narrow band of deep sapphire. Fringed ends, sides overcast. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 475 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 5 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Decorations in golden tones and light blue on a lustrous sapphire 
field include a floral medallion, pomegranates and the Buddha’s- 
hand fruit, sprays of water plants and the blossoming plum 
tree and chrysanthemum, with corners of foliations. Border 
of the golden hues accented with light and dark blue in a foliar 
scroll with blossoms. K’ang-hsi. 


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No. 476 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Old-gold and blue) 
Length, 3 feet 4 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Soft, silky pile; close texture. The deep, ultra-sapphire that 
has been called “midnight-blue” is here used in a combination 
of remarkable effect with azure and a modicum of white on a 
ground of old gold. The blue design, in formal floral units en- 
twined and detached, covers a rectilinear old-golden field around 
a central brocaded medallion. Separated from the field by light 
and harmonious stripes and a narrow dot border is a broad 
border displaying a bold fret in deep blue, relieved by an azure 
underlining, on a ground matching that of the warm and deli- 
cate field. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 477 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet. 


Field with a dull golden note of greenish tinge, its ornamentation 
sapphire and turquoise sprays and foliations, and conventional 
butterflies, touched upon occasion with white. Narrow borders 
of small white squares and a white fret on sapphire, and a broader 
border of floral forms and foliations in sapphire, turquoise and 
white on a ground with the golden note of the field. K’ang-hsi. 


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No. 478 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SILK MAT 
(Red) 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 


Raw silk. A broad border which gives the rug its note, occupy- 
ing a large proportion of its surface, is a bright red of scarlet 
tone but with a jewel quality in its brilliancy. On this ground 
are formal designs in pale sky-blue and pearly white, old gold 
and pale emerald-green. Near its outer edge is an angular fret 
border in apricot on pale turquoise, and on its inner side is a 
narrow border of oblique scroll fret in apricot on seal-brown, en- 
closing a center field of various designs in red and old gold on a 
ground of turquoise and silver. Eighteenth century. 


No. 479 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SILK MAT 
(Red) 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 


Short, close pile. Body-color of a soft but bright red, of ruby 
quality, extending as a broad band on all sides of an inner square 
which is demarcated by an angular fret-scroll in orange on dark 
brown. ‘The red band or greater body carries a formal floral 
and geometrical ornamentation in pale yellow, white and blue; 
the inner square is similarly ornamented, with the addition of red 
reserve. Narrow fret border of golden brown on turquoise. Long 
fringe ends. Probably Western China. Eighteenth century. 


No. 480 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 3 feet 10 inches; width, 1 foot 8 inches. 


A piece of palatial richness, its silken pile caressing to the touch, 
its soft benignant aspect ingratiating to the eye. A geometrical 
lattice of intercepting squares and circles is woven in two deep 
tones of blue, outlined in palest brown and bronze, over a field 
whose indefinable color is lost in its exquisite luster—the circles 
framing crane-medallions almost in self-color, and the squares en- 
closing foliations in rich wine-color and two blues, while the cross- 
ings are marked by small swastikas. Ming. 


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No. 481 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(“The Two Tigers’) 
Length, 3 feet 7 inches; width, 1 foot 11 inches. 


Soft, silky, short pile, with handsome sheen. The body of the 
fabric, extending uninterrupted by band or border from fringed 
ends to overcast sides, is a soft, beguiling, pale olive, shimmering 
in the light, overspreading which are the forms of two out- 
stretched tiger skins, head to head, the tails curling at opposite 
ends of the rug. The great cat bodies are in a tawny yellow, al- 
most a light golden brown, with gray utilized about mouth and 
paws, and a more pronounced brown marking ears and eyes, 
while the stripes are worked in a sharply contrasting dark brown, 
as is the neatly defined spinal ridge. Seventeenth century. 


No. 482 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(“The Rooster’’) 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


A rare example. Three similar geometrical panels, one outlined 
in blue, lie transversely on a rose-pink field, their decoration ac- 
complished in blue and tawny yellows. In one a rooster 1s seen 
perched proudly on some roof or projection, with branches of 
trees near by. In a second a spotted doe is looking upward near 
some rocks, and the third pictures an ancient sacrificial bronze 
vessel and a globular bottle holding flowers. Swastika-fret bor- 
der in brilliant sapphire on a tawny ground. Mung. 


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No. 483 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Sang-de-beuf ) 
Length, 4 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


A color rarely found in Chinese rugs. The whole ground, of field 
and border, is in sang-de-beuf tones, the decoration in a blue so 
deep and dark that it gives the appearance of a rich matt black. 
A medallion of floral forms and foliations encloses a lesser me- 
dallion of fret-scroll, foliations supply the corners, and in the 
intervening space are conventionalizations of the peony motive 
in sprays. The border is a swastika-fret. Eighteenth century. 


No. 484 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
(Golden-yellow, blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


The field is a lattice of floral wheels or rosettes in dark and light 
blue and white, broken by a medallion and triangular corners of 
scrolls in golden-yellow and apricot. This is surrounded by a 
white fret border on blue, a broader border of complicated fret 
in light and dark blue, white, apricot and yellow, and a blue band 
through which runs a stripe of lighter blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 485 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


In general color the rug presents a refined and delectable con- 
fusion, a fawn tone perhaps prevailing, though with silvery and 
golden suggestions and a light and brilliant sheen. On this 
ground the field is elaborately ornamented with sprays and jar- 
diniéres, a medallion of five Fu-lions, and corners involving the 
archaic dragon in conventional scroll form with foliations, all 
wrought in sapphire-blue, turquoise which verges upon turquoise- 
green, apricot, bronze and golden-yellow. Beyond guard stripes 
and narrow borders of dots and fret in white and golden-yellow 
on blue ground is a wide border of the swastika fret in the colors 
of the field with golden tones prevailing. Eighteenth century. 


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No. 486 


ANTIQUE CHINESE BIRD RUG 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


A field of fulvous tone and light sheen is threaded by numerous 
delicate shades of brown and pale yellow, spreading over it 
branches and sprays of flowers, and to these are added other blos- 
soms in white and various blues. At either end, perched upon 
branches above rocks over a rose-pink slope, are sapphire-blue 
birds with yellow legs, their turquoise and white striped wings 
tipped with salmon. Conventional border embodying the general 
color scheme. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 487 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


A very handsome small rug, rich in quality, fine in texture and 
with a soft luster. Field and border return a creamy café-au-lait 
tone, and both are ornamented in foliar designs, worked in a rich, 
deep sapphire-blue, a blue of grayish turquoise quality and a 
modicum of soft white. In the field are also to be found con- 
ventional butterflies, sprigs of the Buddha’s-hand citron, and a 
floral medallion, and in the border are conventionalizations of 
the peony. Ejighteenth century. 


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No. 488 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(The Eight Horses) 
Length, 4 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


On a creamy field, amongst rocks, trees and grasses done in two 
shades of blue, are the famous eight horses, the motive com- 
memorating the notable steeds of Mu Wang, the Chou monarch, 
whose charioteer drove them with his master wherever hoofs had 
trodden or wheel ruts ran in the ancient realm. The horses are 
worked in the two blues, tan, and a mixed brown. One is hap- 
pily rolling on his back, one is munching at the leaves of a tree, 
and one is biting his neighbor’s back. One only is saddled and 
bridled. Eighteenth century. 


No. 489 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Sapphire and golden-brown) 
Length, 3 feet 9 inches; width, 1 foot 10 inches. 


A textile bijou; a very handsome small rug, exquisite in its class. 
Short pile, soft and silky, and close texture. The oblong field 
of rich, deep sapphire-blue, with a sheen of subdued glow, is cut 
at the corners by quadrants of scroll medallions—their design 
a complex of floral and conventionalized archaic-dragon scrolls— 
in pale and golden yellows and light and dark browns. Midway 
of the sides impinge half-medallions of the same design and color- 
ing. The same hues with white and light blue added are em- 
ployed in two complete medallions, worked with floral forms, but- 
terflies and fruits, near either end of the field; while sprays and 
emblematic bats furnish additional embellishment over the gem- 
like surface. In the principal border, conventional designs 
worked in delicate harmony on a ground of brilliant golden- 
brown. Overcast sides; fringe ends. Early Ch’ien-lung. 


(Illustrated in color) 


No. 490 
ANTIQUE CHINESE CIRCULAR MAT 


Diameter, 2 feet 6 inches. 


Unusual shape. Long, soft pile. The circular field, encompassed 
by a series of borders, displays a bold landscape in which a 
spotted deer appears amongst trees, with a crane flying overhead 
amidst cloud-scrolls—auspicious emblems, in the imagery of the 
Orient. The decoration is accomplished in a variety of harmo- 
nious browns and yellows, with stronger dark blues, and light blue 
and white, on a ground of salmon-pink. Eighteenth century. 


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No. 491 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 
(Gold and sky-blue) 


Dimensions, 3 feet 1 inch by 3 feet 2 inches. 


The ground of the field is the beautiful sky-blue of a fair day, 
with a light and brilliant sheen, and over it is a decoration in- 
tricately and ingeniously effected of flying bats amongst cloud- 
scrolls—happiness in the skies—some of the scrolls taking the 
outlines of the sacred fungus, symbol of long life. These are 
placed about a seal character, the whole worked in notes of old 
gold and golden yellow, light apricot and golden-brown, with a 
soft luster. Border of gammadions in gold on a deep sapphire- 


blue. The silky pile is short and dense. Eighteenth century. 


No. 492 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE MAT 
(Gold and sky-blue) 


Dimensions, 3 feet 2 inches by 8 feet 3 inches. 


A pendant and companion to the preceding (No. 491), with the 
same soft glow and beauty of coloring and design. Same period. 


No. 493 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 4 feet 5 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


A blue and white fabric with supplementary colors. At either 
end of the gray-white field a saddled horse is tied to a tree which 
springs from among rocks. In the center is a medallion embrac- 
ing a tree, a spotted stag and a phenix. Borders of Greek and 
swastika fret. The colors used are dark blue and a greenish- 
blue, tawny-yellaw and orange-pink. Eighteenth century. 


No. 494 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 4 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feet 10 inches. 


The body of the field is a rich, effulgent blue of sapphire quality 
and atmospheric depth, and bears a decoration in a grayish 
or turquoise blue, with white, composed of graceful foliar scrolls 
in two expansive designs all but embracing a medallion of simi- 
lar motive, while at the corners appear angular scrolls in pale 
blue and white about the swastika device in the same pale blue 
picked out with sapphire. Border of swastika fret in sapphire 
on a gray-blue ground. Eighteenth century. 


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No. 495 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(The Zodiac) 


Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 


Soft, velvety pile. Quadrangular field of rich, brilliant sapphire, 
bounded by a narrow band of light seal-brown, and containing 
a broad sphere of soft grayish-white with a perimeter of pale 
gold. Within the circle are the twelve signs (animals) of the 
Chinese zodiac in blue, salmon-pink and golden-yellow, about a 
center or inner circle encompassing the ancient symbol yang-yin. 
Eighteenth century. 


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No. 496 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Sapphire and gold) 
Length, 4 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Soft, thick velvety pile and loose texture, with a rich but subdued 
sheen. Field of a deep, glowing sapphire blue, intense and lu- 
minous, in which appear at either end spotted deer and flying 
cranes, with emblematic bats—symbols of longevity and of hap- 
piness—worked in old-gold, golden-brown, white and turquoise; 
while in the center a medallion with a caparisoned horse under a 
tree is effected in similar colors. The brilliant chromatic scheme 
is continued in a border which includes Show characters, adjoin- 
ing a boundary strip of rich sapphire. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 497 


PAIR ANTIQUE CHINESE RUGS 
(Blue and white, coral, pink and yellow) 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Creamy-white ground, on which are pictured birds, butterflies 
and bats, two of the birds poised upon rocks and two perched in 
blossoming plum trees, all in purplish-blue and turquoise, coral, 
pink and pale yellow. Dot and meander borders, and a broad 
border of the archaic dragon-scroll with foliations, the dragons 
depicted with flaming tongues. Eighteenth century. 


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No. 498 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 


(Blue and white) 
Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. - 


Soft, thick pile; loose texture. An oblong field of swastika- 
lattice in deep blue and dark turquoise-green is interrupted by a 
central floral medallion in the same colors with white, the scal- 
loped corners being reserved in blue and bearing floral conven- 
tionalizations in the green and white. A narrow fret border in 
white on blue, between guard-stripes, is succeeded by a deep bor- 
der of flowers, fruits and Buddhist emblems in cream-white, tur- 
quoise-green and soft brown on deep blue ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 499 


ANTIQUE CHINESE MAT 


(Blue and white with yellow) 
Length, 4 feet 9 inches; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


With a decorative scheme which in general is quite familiar, this 
rug is itself quite unusual in that the ornamental arrangement 
shows unexpected variation. At either end, in a mountainous 
landscape, a dark blue spotted stag with outline and details in 
lighter blue is sniffing at a plant growing on a rocky ledge, a re- 
cumbent doe just discernible below him—the doe worked in a 
tone almost the equivalent of that of the body color but clipped 
to a lower plane. The customary tree on either side is similarly 
clipped, and in similar tone as to its trunk and branches, while 
the leaves are in sapphire blue. Above the head of either stag 
is a flying crane in two tones of blue, its crest and wing-tips in 
apricot, and here and there apricot and orange yellows appear 
in details of the landscape. Eighteenth century. 


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No. 500 


ANTIQUE CHINESE FISH RUG 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Soft, loose pile, with a slight sheen. The gray-white field, be- 
tween jagged corners of varicolored mountain forms, is sugges- 
tive of the white sandy-bottomed aquaria where rocks are placed 
that the piscine inhabitants may be at home. Here swim numer- 
ous gold fish, and others, of the varieties having the extraor- 
dinarily long, sweeping, tail-like fins or double tails, and pro- 
truding eyes, while aquatic grasses struggle through the water, 
and leaf and insect forms dot its surface. Swastika-fret, meander 
and stripe borders. Ch’ien-lung. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 501 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 4 inches. 


Short, soft pile. The greater part of the fabric is a warm rose- 
pink or salmon-red, with a fine light luster. This is ornameated 
with successive short, seal-brown lines, in geometrical arrange- 
ment about an ovate medallion, which has the same ground color 
and is decorated in old-gold, sapphire-blue, pale turquoise and 
white, with a figure—possibly the Taoist divinity Hsi Wang 
Mu—bestriding a grotesque lion-monster and carrying a branch 
of sacred fungus as a scepter. The ends are worked with the 
conventional wave motive, in the colors of the central medallion 
with brown added. Eighteenth century. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 502 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SILK SADDLE-CLOTH 
Length, 4 feet 4 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


Made for a high personage. Broad border of soft gray of a re- 
markable quality and effulgent silvery sheen. This carries a nar- 
row geometrical border in soft blue, and itself lies between bands 
of rich seal-brown. The body of the rug is traversed by a fine 
lattice in golden-yellow on a neutral gray, taking a golden sheen. 
Strap-slits have been covered by two leaves of lime-green leather. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 5038 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Golden-brown and green) 
Length, 4 feet 10 inches; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


Short velvety pile. The whole aspect of the rug is of a soft blend- 
ing of rich golden brown and warm orange or copper tones, with 
accents of dark greenish-blue and turquoise-green. ‘The decora- 
tion depicts a large pheenix at either end, in the midst of peony- 
scrolls which extend to a center medallion in which the bird ap- 
pears again along with a conventional archaic presentation of 
the kilin. The greenish-blue and turquoise-green present them- 
selves further in connection with the golden body colors in suc- 
cessive borders which include a key and an alternating fret. 


K’ang-hsi. 


No. 504 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
( Golden-bronze) 
Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 3 feet 3 inches. 


A rare example. Short, close, silky pile. The narrow oblong 
field has a sheen of golden-bronze—a rare tone in carpets. This 
field is beautifully worked in dark sapphire-blue, pale turquoise- 
green and a modicum of white, with the Buddha’s-hand citron, 
graceful poppies, and peony and other floral sprays. Floral 
corners are similarly worked upon it, and a center medallion is 
formed of foliations and the conventionalized archaic dragon- 


scroll. K’ang-hsi. 


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No. 505 


ANTIQUE CHINESE ZODIACAL RUG 
(Blue with yellow and white) 
Length, 4 feet 11 inches; width, 2 feot 6 inches, 


Soft, deep, silky pile, with loose texture. ‘The prevailing blue a 
deep cerulean, with a delicate aerial sheen. The long field is oc- 
cupied by the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac, done for the 
most part in golden yellow and brown, brownish-whites, salmon- 
pink and turquoise-green, appearing in strong contrast to the 


blue ground. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 506 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 5 feet 3 inches; width, 2 feet 2 inches. 


Unusual ornamentation. Soft, close pile. The main field or 
ground appears as a column, in rich and glowing blue, enclosed 
throughout by a Greek fret, and by a border of foliations ex-' 
cept beside certain projections at the top. Above the top is a 
frieze of the swastika-fret; at the bottom of the column are 
archaic dragon corners. The field holds two medallions and 
various ornaments, all in light blue, dull browns, yellows and 


white. K’ang-hsi. 


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No. 507 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Red) 
Length, 5 feet 1 inch; width, 3 feet 1 inch. 


On a body of soft red, without border, is a decoration of many 
short parallel lines, seal-brown in color, placed in transverse 
bands alternately straight and wavy, the lines themselves being 
vertical. At the center is a medallion of angular fret in dark 
and light blue and white, and at either side of it the brown lines 
change to the horizontal, increase in weight and are placed in 
concentric bands. Seventeenth century. 


No. 508 


VERY RARE ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(The “Eight Horses’ of Mu Wang) 
Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 2 feet 6 inches. 


A Ming product in an excellent state of preservation. Soft, 
caressing, tawny ground with a brilliant sheen, between end-bor- 
ders of the leaping-wave motive in two tones of blue, golden- 
brown, golden-yellow and white. In the center a floral wreath in 
dark and light blue, and white, encircles a Show medallion and a 
bat emblem, in brown and brownish-yellow on a golden-yellow 
ground. About the field are the Eight Horses of Mu Wang— 
the celebrated steeds that were reputed to have carried their royal 
Chou owner wherever wheel ruts ran or hoofs had trodden in the 
ancient kingdom. They appear in various attitudes—two nib- 
bling at shrubs, one drinking, others grazing or scampering—in 
white, brown and blue. All around are trees, with black or brown 
trunks, their tops enwrapped in a halo of golden sunshine. Ming. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 509 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG MAT 
Length, 6 feet; width, 2 feet 5 inches. 


In the center a medallion of the archaic dragon-scroll and folia- 
tions; at the corners the archaic dragon highly conventionalized 
in scroll form; and about the field vases and sprays. All in light 
blue, and pale yellowish and apricot tones, on deep and brilliant 
sapphire. Eighteenth century. 


No. 508 


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No. 510 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(The Eight Horses) 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches. 


The reddish copper-brown field, with a light metallic sheen, has 
variously placed upon it rocks, trees and grasses, in golden yel- 
lows, browns, light and dark blue and white, and about the field 
appear eight several steeds in white, blue and brown, commem- 
orative of the wondrous eight horses of Mu Wang, which were 
reputed to have taken him from one end of his kingdom to the 
other, wherever hoofs had trodden, back in the days of the Chou. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 511 


ANTIQUE CHINESE DRAGON RUG 
(Blue, flame and tawny-yellow) 
Length, 5 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet 2 inches. 


Soft thick pile. A fierce five-clawed dragon, his scales defined, 
is depicted in a mottled tawny-yellow pursuing a flaming jewel, 
in the deep, sapphire ether, among emblematic clouds above toss- 
ing waves of the sea. About him are seen branches of the sacred 
fungus, and the auspicious Buddhistic emblems of the twin fish 
and the endless knot. K’ang-hsi. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 512 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 2 inches. 


A very fine rug and in good condition. The field, apparently 
originally intended to be imperial yellow, is now time-softened to 
a restful golden tone, and its color is continued to an exterior 
band of solid and brilliant deep blue, the field being demarcated 
by a triplicate stripe formed of this dark blue on either side 
of a gray or turquoise-blue, and the intervening space divided 
into two borders by a thin line of the dark blue. The adornment 
of the field, symbols of art and culture, about an intricate me- 
dallion, is woven in deep blue, a soft seal-brown, white and tur- 
quoise, time harmonizing all with the golden note of the ground 
color. The borders are worked in similar tones, one in the “walls 
of Troy” fret, one with the archaic dragon scroll and peonies. 
Early K’ang-hsi. 


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No. 513 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE RUG 


Diméhsions, 6 feet square. 


The square field is bluest of the blue, of sapphire quality and a 
deep glow, adorned with four floral medallions near elaborate 
corner foliations and a central medallion figuring a phoenix and 
kilin. Strewn between the medallions are sundry floral sprays 
and amongst them butterflies are on the wing. The colors are 
golden yellows, light blue and white. Fret border of peach-pink, 
followed by a border of white dots on blue, and an outer border 
of conventional peonies and foliations in dark and light blue, 
white and pale yellow on a golden ground, with a boundary strip 
of solid color,—the blue of the field. Eighteenth century. 


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No. 514 
ANTIQUE SILK ELEPHANT SADDLE-CLOTH 


(Brilliant red with rainbow hues) 


Length, 5 feet 3 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. 


The silken pile is soft, brilliant and close-lying, of a deep, rich 
red. The long sides are overcast, the ends are shaped as seg- 
ments of circles and have long fringe. In the center is an 
elongated medallion of angular-scroll in turquoise-blue, in the 
midst of varied short hatchings in seal-brown so deep that it 
seems a rich black. End-borders and supplemental motives in a 
variety of soft and brilliant colors with a rainbow iridescence. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 515 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE RUG 
Dimensions, 6 feet by 6 feet. 


Short, compact pile. Centered by a dragon-and-phenix me- 
dallion of archaic construction, with four foliar-scroll medal- 
hons surrounding it, a deep sapphire field with a subdued sheen 
is strewn with sprays and fluttering butterflies in sundry bright 
tones of turquoise, orange-brown, white and pale yellow, while 
the corners are occupied by foliate scrolls with archaic elements. 
Edges overcast and fringed. Ch/’ien-lung. 


No. 516 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Ivory white, sapphire and bright gold) 
Length, 6 feet 7 inches; width, 4 feet 8 inches. 


Close, short, silky pile. An ivory white field, toned and with a 
reticent sheen, is decorated in a rich, deep sapphire, yellow gold, 
turquoise, and subdued orange-pinks and pinkish-browns, with a 
landscape of mountains and varied trees, in which appear the 
sacred spotted stag and doe, and a flying crane “‘spotted” with 
the mystic fylfot symbol, each of the three—all emblems of 
longevity—bearing in its mouth some branch, presumably of 
the sacred fungus, which is another wish for prolongation of 
days—the highest desire of the Celestials. Two borders harmo- 
niously arranged both in design and color, and a boundary strip 
of solid sapphire-blue. Early Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 517 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue) 
Length, 8 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


Soft pile and loose texture. An expansive quadrilateral field of 
deep cerulean with varying sheen is bestrewn with floral sprays 
of many forms, and among them are to be detected sprigs of 
fruits of the abundances,—-here a peach, there a pomegranate, 
yonder a Buddha’s-hand citron,—all accomplished in harmonious 
browns, golden yellows and salmon-pinks, emphasized by con- 
trasts of white, and of blue so deep as to appear almost black. 
The borders repeat the colors of the field, either solid or bear- 
ing conventional designs. Overcast sides; ends bound. Ch’ien- 


lung. (Illustrated in color) 


No. 518 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue, white, gold and apricot) 
Length, 6 feet; width, 2 feet 11 inches. 


The rectangular field is a soft, grayish-white, restful in toné, 
with écru inclinations, and is decorated in apricot, ight brown, 
old gold, sapphire and turquoise, with sprays and foliations and 
butterflies, and a floral medallion. Surrounding it is a border of 
white discs, followed by a border of chrysanthemum scroll in 
light blue, white, and tones of apricot, both on a sapphire 
ground. Eighteenth century. 


No. 519 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


An unusual and graceful decoration crosses the rug in three 
bands, each formed of delicate stencil patterns and tracery, the 
end ones with a single medallion each and the central one having 
two medallions, all in dark blue on a fawn-tawny ground. Border 
of deep blue with a foliar scroll in pale blue and ground reserve. 
K’ang-hsi. 


517—Antique Chinese Blue Rug 


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No. 520 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Old-gold and sapphire-blue) 
Length, 6 feet; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


The archaic dragon conventionalized into foliations forms the 
principal decorative motive of the rug, one appearing at each 
corner and two forming a medallion in the center, all in a rich 
and brilliant gem-like deep blue of sapphire quality, on a light 
field threaded by a floral scroll in old-gold. Swastika-fret border 


in the same brilliant blue on a pale brownish-yellow ground. Ming. 


No. 521 
ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 


(Varicolored) 
Length, 5 feet 10 inches; width, 3 feet. 


On a white field softening toward écru is a profuse ornamenta- 
tion, of varied motives, in tones of the apricot, peach, and dark 
purplish raspberry-red, combined with a dark sapphire and a 
gray cobalt-blue, and a very soft yellowish-green. The motives 
are numerous sprays and fruit clusters, flowering shrubs guarded 
by balustrades, and a medallion and corners formed of the archaic 
dragon in conventionalized angular-scroll. Beyond a narrow fret 
border in white with guard-stripes of the lighter and darker blue, 
the principal border displays flower and scroll motives in the col- 
ors used on the field, with the same light ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 522 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Red, yellow and brown) 
Length, 5 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. 


Silky pile. The red ground is decorated with numerous short 
parallel lines of seal-brown, vertical, arranged in transverse bands 
which are alternately straight and wavy as they cross the rug. 
In the intervals of the waved or looped bands are conventional 
blossoms in yellow, white and brown. At the center is a large 
medallion of angular scroll in seal-brown and white, and at either 
side of it the short brown parallel lines are turned to the hori- 
zontal in concentric bands. Running across either end of the rug 
is a deep band of formal designs in yellow and red, seal-brown, 
pinkish-brown and white. Seventeenth century. 


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No. 523 
ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 


(Azure with brilliant decorations) 
Length, 6 feet 7 inches; width, 3 feet 1 inch. 


Soft, deep pile with delicate sheen. In the center a composite 
medallion of the swastika, a conventional archaic angular scroll, 
and foliations—similar motives being employed for the corners; 
and about the field various ornaments from the ‘‘Hundred An- 
tiues.” All in golden-yellows, salmon-pinks, white, golden-brown, 
rich pumpkin-color and occasional bits of deep blue. Conven- 
tional borders in accord. Ch’ien-lung. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 524 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Touched with scarlet) 
Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches. 


Soft, deep and silky pile. The field has a golden aspect, which 
resolves itself into a “rice-grain” lattice of soft seal-brown on a 
golden-yellow ground, the interstices presenting a minute orange 
grill. In the stepped corners, angular and swastika fret in tur- 
quoise, orange and gold, and in the center a fret and scroll me- 
dallion in white, pale gold and light and dark blue. A bold and 
remarkable swastika border is worked in pale-turquoise and dark 
blue, white and yellow-gold, with interruptions of brilliant scarlet, 
on a salmon-pink ground. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 525 


~ ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Tawny-yellow and sapphire-blue) 
Length, 7 feet 2 inches; width, 3 feet 9 inches. 


Short, close, compact pile, with firm texture. The field is a 
tawny, lion-skin yellow, with a soft sheen. In it are worked 
archaic dragons, highly conventionalized and taking the form 
of foliated scrolls, two coiled in a central medallion, one curling 
about each of the corners, and two others rampant in the field. 
They are done in a remarkably brilliant, deep sapphire-blue, as 
are five emblematic bats surrounding the medallion and com- 
pleting the decoration of the fine yellow field. A conventional 
lattice-scroll border is succeeded by one of swastika-fret, both in 
blue on the tawny body color. Ming. 


Sp ORIN 


No. 523 


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No. 526 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Salmon and pink) 


Length, 6 feet 3 inches; width, 3 feet 6 inches. 


Short pile and firm texture. The oblong field, salmon-pink with 
a brilliant sheen, carries five medallions of conventional scroll in 
dark and light blue, white and pale yellow; corners of floral 
scroll in the same yellow with white and seal-brown; and a further 
ornamentation of conventional floral and butterfly designs in 
similar colors. In the principal border, corresponding designs in 
the same colors on a golden-brown ground. Overcast side-edges 
and fringe ends. Ch’ien-lung. 


(Illustrated in color—Frontisyziere) 


No. 527 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Rose and golden-yellow, with blue) 


Length, 5 feet 6 inches; width, 2 feet 3 inches. 


The rug of the “Eight Horses.’’ Deep, soft pile and loose tex- 
ture, with brilliant sheen. The hght fawn ground of the long, 
narrow panel is so threaded with pale yellowish-green as to sug- 
gest an old-gold aspect, while the mingling of reddish and pink 
tones both in field and border give a delicate intimation of old 
rose. ‘These dainty colors are accented and enhanced by strong 
blues in outer and inner stripe-borders and in the principal border 
of elaborate and varicolored swastiska-fret. In white, blue, red- 
dish-bay, pink and other colors, eight horses are disposed about 
the field, near rocks and trees, no two in the same attitude, and 
all alert. These symbolize the famous eight horses of the ener- 
getic Emperor Mu Wang, whose charioteer is said to have driven 
them with his master wherever hoofs had trod or wheel-ruts ran 
throughout the ancient realm. All edges bound. Ch’ien-lung. 


(Illustrated) 


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No. 528 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Sapphire-blue and fawn) 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 4 feet 5 inches. 


Short, compact pile, with light sheen. ‘The fawn field is most 
interestingly broken up by seven decorative units in a brilliant 
and intense sapphire-blue. The dragon is the motive, the archaic 
dragon conventionalized in a foliate scroll. One occupies each 
of the four corners; a smaller one is placed between each end 
pair, and a central medallion is formed of two of them coiling, 
and pursuing the sacred jewel. About the medallion, as four un- 
connected corners of an indicated enclosing square, the angular- 
fret scroll based on the archaic dragon conventionalization is 


used. Ming. 
No. .529 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Fawn-gray and sapphire, with brown and pale gold) 
Length, 6 feet; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


Short, compact, silky pile. <A field of soft, silvery fawn-gray is 
adorned only in rich, deep sapphire-blue, the ornamentation 
restrained and carefully placed, and based on the primitive 
dragon motive. Conventionalized archaic dragons, worked into 
foliate-scroll form, occupy the corners, supply a center medallion, 
and (two of them) sport on the field. The balance of the deco- 
ration is made up of four technical “corners” of conventional 
angular scroll based on the archaic dragon design, placed about 
the central medallion to indicate an enclosing parallelogram. 
Tawny-brown border with floral ornamentation in pale gold, 
blues and white. Maing. 


No. 530 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(The “Moonlight” Rug) 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


Soft, silky pile with fine sheen; texture loose and heavy. Quad- 
rilateral field of pale blue whose strange, enticing sheen has 
given the name “moonlight ground.” This luminous ground is 
strewn with sprays and butterflies in brilliant yellows, rose-pink, 
white and sapphire-blue; foliations in similar colors without the 
blue fill the corners; and the center is occupied by an open me- 
dallion of winging flies and fine flowers. Overcast sides and fringe 
ends. Ch’ien-lung. 
(Illustrated) 


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No. 581 


CHINESE RUG 


(Long life and happiness) 
Length, 7 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


Soft pile and loose texture. A bright golden-yellow field receives 
a conglomerate lattice effect from patches of seal-brown and 
small figures in dark cherry which are closely placed all over it. 
This indeterminate pattern is interrupted by five conventional 
floral medallions in sapphire, turquoise, white and peach tones. 
Stepped corners with flower scroll. Bright and elaborate floral 
border with bats and Show marks—signifying happiness and 
longevity. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 582 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue, brown and yellow) 
Length, 6 feet 2 inches; width, 4 feet 3 inches. 


Short pile; loose, heavy texture. Broad quadrangular field in 
deep, rich sapphire-blue of brilliant sheen. Over it conventional 
butterflies are represented on the wing amongst a profusion of 
flower sprays and sprigs—all in joyful yellows sprinkled with 
delicate browns and gray-whites and pale robin’s-egg greens. 
Foliate border in two shades of blue and white on a golden-brown 
ground. Fringe ends and overcast sides. Ch’ien-lung. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 538 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 7 feet 8 inches; width, 7 feet 2 inches. 


Soft, loose pile. Within a deep edge-band of solid color—a soft, 
gray-blue of turquoise quality—a broad border of bold swastika- 
fret in the same blue, on a soft gray-white ground, encloses a 
square white field, with heavy angular-fret corners. The field is 
centered by a bold medallion in blue, through which an angular 
scroll conventionalized from the archaic dragon motive runs in 
white reserve. Carefully spaced on the field are Show medallions, 
endless-knots and other symbols—the same soft tones of blue and 
white prevailing throughout. Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 584 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet 10 inches; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


Fine, short, close, velvety pile. Over a field of gray fawn ground 
runs an interlacement of graceful floral scroll in the form of 
vines, leaves and large blossoms in an elaborately convention- 
alized design. It is in a rich blue of fine quality and occupies the 
entire field, which is bordered by numerous stripes and two bands 
of fret. K’ang-hsi 


No. 585 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 7 feet; width, 5 feet. 


Deep pile. A glowing field of rich sapphire-blue is the luminous 
background for a brilliant floral display, in five medallions and a 
generous strewing of sprays and branches. The leaves and blos- 
soms are worked in golden yellows and browns, white and a pale 
blue of bright turquoise quality. Corner foliations in similar 
colors. Border of alternating T-fret, interrupted by detached 
blossoms, conventionalized. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 586 


ANTIQUE CHINESE ANIMAL RUG 
Length, 6 feet; width, 3 feet 7 inches. 


Short silky pile. Sapphire-blue, rich and glowing, is the field, 
a parallelogram within formal borders, and on it appear no less 
than nine of the strange Fu-lions, four of the smaller ones playing 
with the filleted ball. The animals are in the blue and green of 
the turquoise, and in gray and brownish white. Fringed ends and 
overcast sides. Ch’ien-lung. 


(Illustrated) 


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No. 536 


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No. 537 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
{Apricot and old-gold; peonies and butterflies) 
Length, 7 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches. 


Broad quadrangular field of apricot hue with a glistening sheen, ~ 
carrying a bold and well regulated decoration brilliantly executed. 
This consists of the peony motive, variously adapted, in scrolls 
for the corners and detached sprays for the field about the cen- 
tral medallion, and butterflies fluttering among them; all in sap- 
phire and sky blue, white and old-gold; the medallion a most un- 
usual one in the same colors. Conventional border. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 588 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Rice grains and peony) 
Length, 7 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


Thick, firm pile. A fine “grains-of-rice” lattice in peach tones 
on bright lemon-yellow forms the field, between formal corners of 
bold foliations. In the center is a peony-scroll medallion, in two 
blues and white on an orange-brown ground, and comprehending 
a central disc where two of the Fu-lions are seen, boldly executed. 
Placed with careful restraint and fine sense of proportion be- 
tween corners and medallion are six peony blossoms, on stems with 
leaves. -Fret and swastika borders, the latter interrupted by de- 
tached flowers. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 589 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue with flame color, golden-yellow and white) 
Length, 6 feet 6 inches; width, 4 feet 7 inches. 


Thick, velvety pile with a light sheen. A rug of imagery and 
emblems. At the ends, rocky and mountainous landscapes with 
trees rise from conventional waves. In the field, spotted stags 
look up at flying cranes—both emblems of long life—and the sky 
lion gazes at the swooping pheenix or feng-huang, whose appear- 
ance in the heavens foretold auspicious times and virtuous rulers. 
(The bird was also the emblem of the Empress.) Eighteenth 
century. 


(Illustrated) 


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No. 540 


ANTIQUE CHINESE TEMPLE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 5 inches. 


An unusual fabric with a rare decoration. Short, close, silky 
pile. Light antelope ground with a bright luster. At one end 
a tall pagoda in fine lines of brilliant golden-yellow and neutral 
brown, on a masonry base of sapphire-blue and turquoise-green, 
guarded at either side by the dog Fu in brilliant sapphire, tur- 
quoise, brown and white, each Fu on his pedestal. Higher up a 
vigorously executed five-clawed dragon, largely in sapphire-blue, 
forms the most conspicuous feature of the rug, above him ap- 
pearing several of the Buddhistic emblems of happy augury. 
Swastika border. Separated from the main body of the decora- 
tion by a conventional motive which interrupts the border as 
well, is a square section defined by bands and enclosing a formal 
arrangement of foliations. Ming. 


No. 541 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG - 
Length, 8 feet 5 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches. 


A diamond lattice of golden-yellow and golden-brown is woven 
over a field of peach tones and rose, and interrupted by eight 
foliated medallions outlined in bright golden-yellow on a peach 
ground and enclosing wreaths of conventional flowers in dark and 
light blue and white. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 542 


CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 6 feet 4 inches; width, 3 feet 10 inches. 


Short, soft pile. Oblong field of soft gray-white, fully occupied 
by detached but closely placed flower and leaf sprays and corner 
foliations, in two shades of blue. Broad and narrow borders of 
the swastika-fret in dark blue on white. 


(Illustrated) 


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No. 5438 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 11 inches; width, 5 feet 2 inches. 


Fine greenish-golden swastika-grill over a gray-fawn ground, 
throughout a long quadrilateral field. Spaced in alternating 
rows of two and three, are twenty-five decorative objects in deep 
blue and turquoise, golden reserve, peach tones, orange-brown 
and yellow. They include a hanging bell, a dish of fruit, a branch 
of plum blossoms, a tripod, flower sprays, and fish swimming in 
a bowl. Eighteenth century. 


No. 544 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 6 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet. 


Thick, close pile, and brilliant sheen. Effulgent in the glowing 
blue of the deep; spread with tones of gold; touched with pale 
turquoise and white. The decoration consists of eight varying 
geometrical figures, enclosing various ornaments of the house- 
hold, in two columns on the blue quadrangular field, which is 
bounded by a brilliant golden swastika-fret border, within a 
sober, narrow, exterior strip of camel’s-hair brown. Ch’ien-lung. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 545 


ANTIQUE CHINESE BROAD RUG 
(Azure and yellows and the zodiac) 


Breadth, 8 feet 2 inches; depth, 5 feet 7 inches. 


Short, compact pile with loose texture. A rug of ancient motives” 
and modern beauty. Luminous azure field, broad and rather deep, 
largely covered by decorative motives in subdued yellows and 
browns, deep blue, and gray-white. The decorative devices in- 
clude bold archaic dragon-scrolls in the corners, and the same 
design worked with foliations into five medallions, with numerous 
sprays and ornaments largely filling the interspaces of the field. 
T-fret border followed by a conventional floral and foliate border 
in which are found the twelve figures of the Chinese zodiac. 
K’ang-hsi. 


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No. 546 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Fawn and blue) 
Length, 8 feet 6 inches; width, 6 feet 6 inches. 


Soft, silky, compact pile. Light fawn field, the ornamentation so 
placed that broad spaces are left undecorated, to reveal at the full 
the quiet monochrome charm. The ornamentation itself has a 
peculiar attraction, an individuality, though deriving from con- 
ventional sources. In corners, in the medallion and in field figures 
an outline scroll is employed that appears to be an artist-weaver’s 
variant upon that form of the archaic dragon-scroll which took 
the lines of foliations—the colors a deep sapphire and very pale 
green, with rare touches of yellow. ‘The border, in the same light 
lines, is alike suggestive of familiar forms, yet has been worked 
out with an ingenious individuality. Fringed ends and overcast 
sides. Ming. 
No. 548 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue, white and yellow) 
Length, 8 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 8 inches. 


Soft close pile. Fu-lons in deep sapphire, turquoise and white, 
glare aggressively in pairs in the field, and collectively in a group 
of five in a central medallion, which is surrounded by an outer 
band or wheel in which a suggestion of the Western Asiatic latch- 
hook appears in alternate sections of the two blues. The color of 
the field is a rich, full yellow, one of the innumerable beautiful 
yellows in which the Chinese craftsmen were superlative whether 
working in porcelain, carpets or silks. The field is further ef- 
fectively decorated with growing plants, symbols, and archaic- 
dragon corners. Fringe ends; overcast sides. Eighteenth century. 


No. 549 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Neutral tones) 
Length, 6 feet 5 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


Short, soft, compact pile, with loose texture. A fawn-gray tone 
pervades the square field, modified by quiet browns and yellows 
in the bodies of sundry vases and censers and other characteris- 
tic objects of household decoration which are woven into the 
fabric. Contrasts are supplied by outlines of small body-masses 
of deep blue. An orange-brown fret runs through a sapphire 
band as an inner border, beyond which is a swastika-fret in deep 
sapphire on a brownish-yellow ground. K’ang-hsi. 


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No. 550 


CHINESE RUG 
(Peach and old-gold, blues and seal-brown) 
Length, 8 feet 9 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


Deep loose pile. Rectilinear field of peach color, with a delicate 
bloom or sheen, richly ornamented with branches of peonies, con- 
ventional butterflies and floral medallions—the colors turquoise 
and sapphire blue, white, a wealth of old gold, and generous 
touches of a soft seal-brown turned by flecks of yellow toward a 
golden-brown. In the brilliant and ornate border the Show char- 
acter appears in medallion form in imperial yellow on the old-gold 
ground, with peaches, emblematic bats and foliations in various 
colors. Fringe ends; overcast sides. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 551 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 8 inches; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


In a field of golden-ochre hue there has been distributed a boun- 
tiful decoration, worked out in rich dark blue and a blue which 
suggests ‘‘cadet gray,” with white. It comprises, with five floral 
medallions, the central one embraced within festoons of peonies, 
a plant of the sacred fungus near a bamboo tree, a mez tree in 
blossom and a blossoming chrysanthemum, with peach and pome- 
granate trees and a plant of the Buddha’s-hand citron, besides 
corners of interlacing scrolls. A narrow border of white dots 
on dark blue is followed by a key-fret border in the gray-blue on 
the dark blue, and this by a border of gammadions in the dark 
blue on a ground of the field color. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 552 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Yellow, rose and blue) 
Length, 8 feet; width, 5 feet 8 inches. 


Deep, thick and soft pile. Brilliant as a mass of goldenrod, the 
quadrangular field of deep orange-yellow is set with leaves of old- 
gold on sapphire-blue branches sustaining gorgeous tree-peony 
blossoms in old-rose and white. These in profusion are scattered 
about a cloud-scroll medallion encompassing in turn a group or 
inner medallion formed of lions, the whole device in all the colors 
of the floral decoration coupled with ground reserve. Archaic 
dragon-scroll corners. Angular-fret and flower-scroll borders. 


Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 553 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 8 imches. 


Thick, soft, velvety pile. A handsome Oriental production in 
which numerous strong colors are harmoniously employed. The 
field has a soft pearl-white ground and a two-party decoration, 
or a decoration repeated based on each end of the rug. At either 
end the spectator looks upon a mountainous landscape with trees 
of different varieties. In the topmost branches of wine-colored 
plum trees with blue, yellow and pink blossoms are perched dark- 
blue birds with light-blue, white-striped wings and pink beaks. 
Near by are standing and flying cranes, and lower down are a 
gray-blue stag, spotted in reds, and a sapphire-blue doe without 
spots; and elsewhere are to be found bamboo trees, symbolical 
bats, and scrolls of the sacred fungus pattern. In an inner bor- 
der are found Show medallions and the endless-knot, amongst 
various formal patterns, and the knot recurs in the outer border, 
which is of unusual and ingenious variety of pattern and color. 


Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 554 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Fawn and blue) 
Length, 8 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


A fine example of early Ch’ien-lung. The field of fawn color with 
a light, soft sheen, is enclosed within a fret border which is fol- 
lowed by a conventional floral border, both done in two shades 
of blue on the fawn ground, these being succeeded by a boundary 
stripe in solid blue. In the center is a large medallion formed 
by a group of nine of the Fu-lons playing about the brocaded 
ball, and the corners are formed of the archaic dragon scroll 
combined with the conventionalized peony motive, all executed in 
sapphire blue and a darkened turquoise. The same colors are 
used for the generous balance of the decoration, which includes 
jardiniéres with growing peonies, bamboo, plum, the Buddha’s- 
hand fruit and pomegranates, bronze sacrificial vessels and other 
objects of household ornament, a bundle of books and the endless- 
knot symbol. Early Ch’ien-lung. (Repaired. ) 


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No. 555 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 8 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 6 inches. 


A tawny quadrangular field with a light sheen has at its center a 
circular medallion formed of two flying storks in white, pale yel- 
low and sapphire. The balance of the field is wholly occupied 
by conventional cloud-scrolls (with the sacred fungus suggested 
in their lines), outlined with white, and large storks winging their 
way amongst them; here and there a peach or other such symbol 
carries the prayer for long life further. Eighteenth century. 


No. 556 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Dark green) 
Breadth, 8 feet 3 inches; depth, 6 feet 1 inch. 


Short, soft and compact pile, with loose texture. A rug in sober 
colors, with a profuse ornamentation. 'The expansive field is a 
dark, subdued green, into which are worked closely placed deco- 
rative devices—bronzes and other household ornaments, boxes of 
flowering plants and shrubs, conventional butterflies—besides 
five foliate and geometrical medallions, and formal corners. The 
color used are blue so deep that it suggests black, red browns, 
quiet yellows, and gray whites. The several borders include one 
of a bold and intricate swastika-fret in brighter colors. This is 
really a broad rather than a long rug. Sides overcast; broad 
ends fringed. Late eighteenth century. 


(Illustrated) 


No. 557 


ANTIQUE CHINESE BROAD RUG 
Breadth, 8 feet 2 inches; depth, 5 feet 11 inches. 


The field ground is a turquoise-blue which when looked at against 
the light has a slightly mottled hue of turquoise-green. Its deco- 
ration comprises five medallions in which the peony motive and 
foliate and angular scrolls are used, and various ornaments, but- 
terflies and sprays, with extensive corners of the peony pattern 
and foliations. The colors are a rich sapphire, soft gray-white, 
and different yellows, and the general key is held low, as it is also 
in the two borders, although in them the yellow tones predomi- 
nate in contrast to the darker ground tone of the field. Eigh- 
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No. 558 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Butterflies and flowers ) 
Length, 8 feet 7 inches; width, 5 feet 4 inches. 


Undoubtedly a production of the Yung-chéng era, with an ex- 
quisite quality and color in the decoration which irresistibly sug- 
gest the rare rose-backed and five-bordered plates that came from 
the ceramic artists of that day. The field is of a soft apricot 
tone with light luster, profusely decorated with flower forms, bats 
and butterflies, in a delicate rose, soft white, dark sapphire and 
lighter cobalt-blue, brown and a bright golden yellow. ‘The same 
colors form a tripartite medallion in the center, in which are 
involved blossoms and foliations, archaic dragons, and a bird 
perched upon a flower stem. Five colored borders may be 
counted, including a boundary band of dark sapphire. Yung- 
chéng. 
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No. 559 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG RUG 
(Imperial yellow, blue and white) 
Length, 9 feet 9 inches; width, 3 feet 5 inches. 


An unusual pattern in rugs. The whole field, a bright and vivid 
imperial yellow, is broken by vibrating white lines into the pat- 
tern known as ‘“‘cracking ice,” the lines interrupted by drifting 
blossoms of the mei, all in white; the decorative scheme familiar 
in porcelains and there denominated the “hawthorn pattern”—a 
motive designed to represent the passing of winter and the com- 
ing of spring, the disintegrating ice strewn with blossoms of the 
winter-blooming wild prunus. In the border the same bright yel- 
low continues as ground, adorned in deep sapphire and pale tur- 
quoise blue with detached cloud scrolls. Ch’ien-lung. 


No. 560 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet 3 inches; width, 5 feet 2 inches. 


Peach-toned field with light sheen, luxuriously decorated with 
peonies, prunus, bamboo and magnolia trees, the Buddha’s-hand 
fruit and other designs, and seven floral medallions, in bright 
golden yellow, turquoise-blue, sapphire and a profusion of white. 
Narrow border of white dots on blue, and a wider border in bright 
colors embodying Buddhistic emblems and flowers and foliations. 
Ch’ien-lung. 


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ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet; width, 5 feet 5 inches. 


The field, écru or a pale apricot under its very briliant sheen, 
is decorated with flowers from end to end, in golden yellow, green- 
ish gold, white and deep and pale blue. Border of conventional 
peony flowers and foliar scrolls on a hight ground with golden yel- 
low prevailing and the dark blue in contrast. Eighteenth century. 


No. 562 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet; width, 5 feet 7 inches. 


Brilliant peach-color ground, with sheen, and in the corners and 
a center medallion the archaic dragon-scroll in dark and light 
blue and white. Toward either end of the field a broadly branch- 
ing peony scroll in pale gold and white. Floral scroll border 
and various strip borders. Seventeenth century. 


No. 568 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white) 
Length, 9 feet 8 inches; width, 6 feet 4 inches. 


Glowing field in the rich and brilliant color of the deepest sap- 
phire sky, crystalline, scintillant, gem-like, of ample proportions ; 
decorated generously yet with artistic restraint, in turquoise and 
a white of soft, grayish tone. The decoration involves a variety 
of sprays, including some not often met with in these fabrics, 
with large foliations and several butterflies, distributed about a 
large and gracefully worked medallion of similar elements. Bor- 
der of foliations also in the turquoise and white on a brilliant 
ground of the field color. K’ang-hsi. 


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No. 564 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 9 feet 11 inches; width, 6 feet 3 inches. 


A carpet of dignified and impressive qualities and rare color dis- 
tribution. Rich cerulean field, with corners of the archaic dragon- 
head scroll linked to a conventional peony blossom, in deep 
apricot and a lighter apricot of pinkish hue, bright golden yel- 
low, white, and dark sapphire-blue. Both the dragon-scroll and 
the peony reappear in a large medallion at the center, in similar 
coloring, but with the pink leaning toward rose and the deeper 
apricot replaced by a tone almost red. Four lesser medallions 
have place in the field, which is further adorned with vases, jar- 
dinieres and symbolic bats, the same colors being used with the 
addition of turquoise and a light greenish-yellow. In the border 
the dragon-scroll and foliations, in dark and light blue, white, 
golden yellow and pale apricot on a deep apricot ground. Ch/’ien- 
lung. 


No. 565 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Pearl gray and polychrome) 
Length, 10 feet 1 inch; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


Short, soft pile; close, firm texture. The ground of the long 
rectilinear field is a soft, grayish-white, partaking of the nature 
of a light pearl-gray. It bears a prodigality of ornament in five 
colors—light and dark blue, golden yellow, salmon-pink and a 
dark coppery red. In the center a foliar medallion encloses a 
group of five lions about a small brocaded ball. Near the cor- 
ners are four smaller circular medallions, with the rare decora- 
tion of figures—traditional Taoist beings, one borne on a pheenix, 
one riding a kilin, a third on another strange animal of tiger-like 
build, while the fourth appears to be seated on a lotus-leaf. In 
the corners themselves are foliations entwined with an ancient 
angular scroll, while over the field butterflies, bats and phceenixes 
fly amid flower sprays, clusters of fruits, baskets or blossoms, 
and numerous devices from the “Hundred Antiques.” In the 
principal border of formal flower motives a dozen birds are to 
be found, perched or on the wing. A rare rug, as well as beau- 
tifully ornate. Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 566 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Remarkable blue) 
Length, 9 feet 10 inches; width, 7 feet 2 inches. 


Short, close, silky pile; compact texture. The broad quadran- 
gular field presents an intricate elaboration of foliations and 
conventional floral scroll, in fawn and tawny tones and a deep 
sapphire-blue of truly gem-like quality. The scroll, although 
connecting, is in a succession of lateral bands, and the flower 
motive, expanding in various conventional blossom forms, 1s 
treated additionally in pale blue, yellow and other colors. Border 
of Greek fret in neutral tones within a swastika lattice of the 
remarkable blue. Ming. 


No. 567 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(A rare design) 
Length, 10 feet 8 inches; width, 7 feet 4 inches. 


Soft, short and close pile. Tawny ground with a light sheen, 
decorated in blues. The decoration, which covers the field, con- 
sists of more than two score units, worked in brilliant dark blue 
and a pale turquoise, with a little white, the forms including 
ancient bronze ceremonial vessels, a fish-bowl with fish, a gourd- 
shaped vase holding a branch of fungus, butterflies within a leaf, 
a dish of fruit, a sounding stone, a gong and a counting-board. 
Fret border in blue on rose-pink, and a swastika border in blue 
on bright yellow, interrupted by bat symbols. K’ang-hsi. 


(Illustrated in color) 


No. 568 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 10 feet 8 inches; width, 7 feet 1 inch. 


Rich apricot field, bounded by a white hard stripe and a diaper 
border in turquoise and pale yellow, while other white stripes, 
a conventional border in blues and yellows and a band of solid 
blue are found outside of that. The field is adorned in pale gold 
and other light yellows, ight and dark blue and pink, with but- 
terflies and blossom sprays, four lightly worked floral medallions, 
and a large medallion embracing a kilin and pheenix. Eighteenth 
century. 


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No. 569 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 10 feet 10 inches; width, 6 feet 2 inches. 


This beautiful carpet has all but yielded its color to its bril- 
liant, shimmering sheen. The rectangular field has a ground of 
salmon or pinkish-orange tone which gives way to the bright 
yellow-golden note of a vine-scroll it supports, which is all-per- 
vasive. Here and there amongst the scrolling leaves and stems 
appear conventional blossoms in white and two shades of blue, 
and the field is broken by eight foliate medallions, also worked 
in the blue tones and white, enclosing inner medallions of two 
rudely conventionalized archaic dragons. he border of conven- 
tional peonies and foliations, which is in the two blues and white 
on light golden-yellow ground, is done in an early and engaging 
manner. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 570 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Gold and blue) 
Length, 10 feet 9 inches; width, 6 feet 7 inches. 


Soft, satiny pile. Glowing golden yellow is the field, brilliant 
and shimmering, and revealing in elusive glimpses a vague lattice 
which covers the field throughout in a scarcely perceptibly darker 
tone. Fu-lions prowl or crouch at the corners, three of them in 
a group appear in a central medallion, and two more roam in- 
dividually in the field, where also are sprays of flowers, clusters 
of fruit and flying bats. The various decorations are in two 
shades of blue, white, orange-brown, fawn and a faint rose-pink. 
In an elaborate border the endless knot, the conch shell and a 
fish find place amongst numerous symbols and devices. Eigh- 


teenth century. 
No. 571 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 10 feet 9 inches; width, 7 feet 6 inches. 


A fine fabric bearing the scars of venerable service. The ca- 
pacious field, a light antelope hue, encloses a medallion of gen- 
erous diameter, formed of four scrolling archaic dragons pur- 
suing each other around the circle, this medallion encompassing 
a lesser one made up of two of the monsters extended in sinuous 
scroll. Both of the medallions are in blue of fine quality, so in- 
terspersed with threads of the ground color as to give the effect 
of stippling, or the soufflé of porcelains. The dragon motive 1S 
repeated in the same color and manner at each corner, where two 
of the supernatural animals are found. Wide border of the 
swastika fret executed in the same method as the dragons. Ming. 


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No: 572 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 


Length, 11 feet 4 inches; width, 8 feet 4 inches. 


A dignified carpet, sober and contained. The field, a glowing 
sapphire-blue characteristic of the period, is so treated as ef- 
fectually to form a broad border about a large panel which oc- 
cupies its center and a goodly portion of its acreage. On the 
blue is a formal and elaborate peony scroll in tawny tones, the 
large conventional blossoms touched with turquoise and ivory 
white. ‘The panel, with indented corners, and projecting spear- 
points midway of its sides, is defined in turquoise and the tawny 
notes, and has a light fawn ground, on which two of the Fu-lions 
in blues and yellows guard their brocaded charm. There are sev- 
eral borders, in the lighter tones, the principal one revealing the 
swastika in its ground color, the design being effected in detached 
units of pale turquoise. K’ang-hsi. (Repaired.) 


No. 573 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Azure, sapphire and gold) 
Length, 10 feet 8 inches; width, 6 feet 1 inch. 


Deep, soft pile and loose texture, with a brilliant and delicate 
silken sheen. Examined against the light the ample field pre- 
sents the hue of the blue turquoise, with blendings of palest tur- 
quoise-green. With the light upon it it reflects the pale azure of 
a slightly milky sky. Over this blue expanse are lightly sown 
flower-sprays and sprigs of fruit, among which butterflies flutter, 
around a large and delicately constructed open medallion of folia- 
tions with which the beautiful moths are adroitly intermingled. 
Foliar corners meet as floral arches. The ornamentation is in 
bright golden yellows, salmon tones, salmon-pink, rich and lux- 
urious golden browns, and white, with the addition of intense 
dark blue in the foliations of the central medallion. Bright and 
harmonious borders of angular fret and formal floral devices. 
Fringe ends and overcast sides. Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 574 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SQUARE CARPET 
Length, 10 feet 2 inches; width, 10 feet. 


The governing tone is a warm, rich salmon-pink, with a rosy 
glow, and the soft, deep pile has a shimmering, silken sheen. The 
large field bears a noble medallion of flower forms and scrolling 
foliations, in two sections, the inner embracing four of the archaic 
dragon-headed angular scrolls worked as compact units, the whole 
in golden-yellow and pinkish-brown, gray-blue and deep dark blue, 
and white. The same colors are used in large branches of bloom- 
ing peonies, blossoming plum trees, lotus flowers, sprays of mag- 
nolia and clusters of the Buddha’s-hand citron, which surround 
the medallion, and in the extensive corners of flowers and pendent 
foliations. ‘Three borders in accord with the general decorative 
scheme, and a boundary of solid color—deep sapphire-blue. 
Eighteenth century. 


No. 575 


ANTIQUE CHINESE SILK RUG 


(Rose and azure) 


Length, 10 feet 10 inches; width, 4 feet 6 inches. 


A rarely beautiful work of the weaver’s art, long held in a tem- 
ple of Peking. The rug reveals Persian influences, or familiarity 
with the decorative schemes of Western and Southern Asia. Its 
long field has a ground of exquisite old rose, and the ground of 
the principal border is a brilliant azure. Over the rose field runs 
an intricate decoration of geometric devices and conventionalized 
floral designs, in olive and olive-yellow, bright blue and dull blues 
and quiet greens. ‘The pattern in the broad border is of floral 
forms highly conventionalized, and worked in olive, rose and 
golden tones on the atmospheric blue. <A characteristic border 
runs inside this, with a line-scroll in rich, dark brown enclosing 
colorful details; and in an outer border a similar scroll with 
varied details threads a ground of mellow golden-brown. The 
sheen is so delicate it takes the character of a shimmer. Sey- 
enteenth century. 


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No. 576 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
(Blue and white ) 
Length, 11 inches 11 feet; width, 6 feet 1 inch. 


A noble carpet with bigness of design and rich color. The depth 
of the sapphire ground which runs throughout the fabric is at 
once noticeable. The decoration is laid upon this in turquoise- 
blue and a soft gray-white, in a quadrangular field and formal 
border within a boundary of the solid blue. The border is a suc- 
cession of foliations and lies between narrow stripes of white 
and turquoise, other similar stripes also marking off a narrower 
border on the inner side of it, the latter composed of white discs 
implanted on the deep blue ground. The great field, its dark 
ground fairly aglow with a quiet and deep brilliance, is occupied 
by opulent sprays of flower and fruit design, the peach, Buddha’s- 
hand citron, plum, chrysanthemum, poppy and others, and numer- 
ous butterflies, some of relatively enormous size. At the center 
is a foliar medallion enclosing sprigs of the peach, pomegranate, 


Buddha’s-hand fruit and the plum. K’ang-hsi. 


No. 577 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RUG 
Length, 11 feet; width, 6 feet 11 inches. 


Warm salmon-red, almost a flame color, as a ground, through- 
out the large rectangular field, which has an unusual and highly 
successful decorative scheme. This consists of many varieties 
of flowers and fruit, and numerous objects of Chinese ornament, 
to the total number of seventy units, so disposed and colored 
as to produce an agreeable effect and balance. And contrary to 
the familiar way of having half the decoration face either end of 
a rug, in this one all the objects are to be viewed from one end. 
The colors used include sapphire and turquoise blue, various yel- 
lows and browns, and white; and among the objects are incense 
burners, vases, ancient sacrificial bronzes, bell or sounding-stone 
stands in the dragon motive, bamboo, peony, chrysanthemum and 
plum branches, the peach of longevity and the Buddha’s-hand 
citron. Eighteenth century 


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No. 578 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Buff, blue and white) 
Length, 11 feet 3 inches; width, 9 feet 10 inches. 


A very handsome production of the eighteenth century, in fine 
condition. ‘The large square field is of an even buff color, its 
decoration wholly in blue and white, the blue being of two tones, 
one of a grayish, cobalt quality in distinction from the more 
usual sapphire note, and the other so faint a blue as to suggest 
a lavender-gray. ‘Twelve borders. Fringed ends and overcast 
sides. Eighteenth century. 


No. 579 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 12 feet 2 inches; width, 6 feet 7 inches. 


A very elaborate geometrical grill, its structural parts in a rich 
blue of notable quality, outlined in white, covers the large quad- 
rilateral field of tawny ground. Within the enclosures are or- 
namental conventional flower patterns in light and dark blue and 
white. The border is an interesting one, rarely met with if ever 
before, of archaic and indeterminate devices or designs, effected 
in the two blues and white on a light yellow-tawny ground. Ming. 


No. 580 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 12 feet 10 inches; width, 10 feet 6 inches. 


Large square field of salmon-pink which warms to a rose note, 
with a profusion of decoration in the form of flower scrolls, folia- 
tions and butterflies, and a large medallion, in golden-yellow, tur- 
quoise and deep blue, white, peach and apricot tones. A fret 
border in the two blues on a bright golden-yellow ground lies 
within a deeper border of foliations in peach color, white and 
yellow on a dark blue ground, and that inside a boundary strip 
of solid color, the deeper shades of blue. Ch’ien-lung. 


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No. 581 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(Blue, white and yellow) 
Length, 11 feet; width, 5 feet 9 inches. 


Soft, compact pile; loose texture. Rectangular field of deep blue 
with slight sheen, the color-tone varying and occasionally return- 
ing greenish suggestions. In the center a large Fu-lon rampant, 
headed lengthwise of the rug, and in either corner a curling 
smaller Fu, these latter playing in pairs with the brocaded and 
filleted ball. Various ornaments and emblems dot the remainder 
of the field, all, like the lions, in gray-white, yellow and pale tur- 
quoise. Double borders in white and blue, the outer one com- 
prehending the butterfly in high conventionalization. Ch’ien- 
lung. 
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No. 582 


ANTIQUE CHINESE RAW SILK CARPET 
(With the rare color, green) 
Length, 12 feet 7 inches; width, 12 feet 4 inches. 


A carpet of many colors, yet so softened as to give the sugges- 
tion of neutral tones. ‘The whole square field is cut as a large 
grill of geometrical figures in azure and turquoise lines. The in- 
terspaces, with a ground of rich, soft brown which holds all the 
other colors and the patterns together, are marked by varied 
conventional flower designs and stars, in soft pink and old rose, 
seal brown and golden yellow, pale turquoise and a yellowish 
olive-green. Familiar and remarkable as are the greens in antique 
Chinese porcelains and potteries, it is very rarely that green is 
found in the old rugs. Aside from the notes of it in the body of 
this carpet, there is here a very beautiful smaragdine border, in 
which is laid a swastika fret in brilliant cerulean, a striking yet 
happy combination. Enclosing this border are stripes of rich 
seal-brown, old-rose, turquoise, and again the smaragdine with a 
darker emerald green. A rug which particularly emphasizes 
itself for an oak room. Sixteenth century. 


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No. 588 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
Length, 18 feet 1 inch; width, 8 feet 10 inches. 


Ground of an imperial yellow, supporting archaic dragon scrolls 
in two shades of blue and white as corners, and five medallions, 
the center one of large diameter; these display the archaic dragon 
scroll again, in the two blues without the white, and rock peony 
and magnolia trees, with other formal blossoms and foliations, in 
the two blues, white, salmon-pink and a plentiful use of the yel- 
low ground reserve. There are also various vases, symbols and 
jars of growing plants. Brilliant borders of meander and folia- 
tions and an exterior band of solid blue. Eighteenth century. 


No. 584 


ANTIQUE CHINESE CARPET 
(“Tiger stripes’’) 
Length, 14 feet 5 inches; width, 7 feet 6 inches. 


The entire field of this ancient carpet is of a golden-brownish 
tone, tinged with yellow, covered with myriad repetitions of the 
conventional tiger-stripe in miniature, in a dull, deep brown. In 
the center a geometrical figure with diamond points, outlined in 
pale gray-blue and dark sapphire, encloses two ‘lions—one in pale 
yellow, one in the dark sapphire—each with a fillet of the bro- 
caded ball that les between them in its mouth. The unusual 
border is a broad reticulate band of geometric forms in gray-blue 
and sapphire on a light tawny-yellow. Ming. 


No. 585 


ANTIQUE CHINESE LONG STRIP 
Length, 15 feet; width, 2 feet 4 inches. 


A rare fabric; the long strips are not often found. This one is 
a pathway to long life and happiness, in the Oriental imagery of 
its weaver, who has contrived a design wholly of the sacred fungus 
and the conventional scrolls derived from it—a symbol of 
longevity—and bats, emblems of happiness. The colors are heay- 
enly blue, bright golden yellow, golden brown, and tones of peach 
and apricot. Ch’ien-lung. 


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